We look like shlemiels

A shlemiel is a clumsy bungler, an inept person, butter-fingered; dopey person (as opposed to the shlemazel - on whom the shlemiel pours his soup - who is Luckless person. Unlucky person; one with perpetual bad luck. After the absurd order given on Monday to use paintball guns and the failure to use real weapons for the first 40 minutes of Monday's raid, the IDF look like shlemiels. Philip Klein