Busted

Yet again the New Yorker "Cartoon Caption" contest #190 was an edifice of futility.

I'll grant that my entry was just okay:

So that's what "overseas contingency operation" means.

But, I don't think that ANY of the "winners" really address what's shown in the cartoon. That being a osterich with it's head in the sand REPLACING a charging bull.

• "If we just ignore it, maybe it'll go away." - too obvious
  
  
  
• "The statue of the lemmings was just too depressing." - ZZZZZ
  
  
  
• "I think the head's in the wrong place." -  to be fair, I got got a chuckle out of that one