Since Erica and I share our wedding anniversary with the start of the Iraq War (almost), it looks like we are going to have a big drumbeat of pre-anniversary war news coverage every year until the troops come home, thus I expect, each year for the rest of our natural lives.
Jon Stewart was noting our joint anniversary this week on the Daily Show, and asking what the traditional gift for a 3rd anniversary is. I have consulted Wikipedia and the answer, apparently, is "leather." My oh my.
Erica and I will mutually decline, I think, but one has to marvel at the appropriateness of this gift if one imagines (as Jon did) it coming from the US occupiers to their oh-so-civilly occupied Iraqis. Just think of all the uses! Helmets and body armor, for one. Gloves. Jackets. Whips, straps, and restraints. Thong underwear! Not a one of them out of place.
All of which also brings to mind - yes - Fox News. I was watching the closed captions on one of their programs while at the gym today (no other bicycle free), and noticed one of their anchors discussing, as a key bullet point on the current situation in Iraq, "sectarian violence." And I was thinking about the key Administration Message of the Day: Iraq is not descending into civil war. Of course, they had been forced against all evidence into making this denial because their ex-poster-boy for Iraqi democracy, Ayad Allawi, stated clearly to the BBC that this was exactly the right characterization. So you've got to have sympathy for the Administration on this one, given the awkwardness of their position from the get-go.
But then you parse the meaning of that Fox News phrase, "sectarian violence," and you realize that even these gents are no longer with the program. Truly a leather anniversary, all around.
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