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Spring Break Baghdad Style I was spending a riveting couple of hours the other day watching the paint dry on one of the CNN's live, on the spot, poking through the rubble in search of something interesting reports, when I heard something that actually caught my attention. One of the military's pet journalists made a comment to the effect that, due to the fact that they might be wired with explosives, Coalition forces were now having all suspected terrorists strip to the waist. (Smirk!) While I am sure that this has nothing whatsoever to do with the rumor that 97% of the suspected terrorists now being detained in Iraq are attractive young women, I have heard that Spring Break would be held in Baghdad this year. As far as I'm concerned, this conjures up some perfectly grotesque imagery. I have this hideous mental picture of a bunch of topless Muslim women stumbling through the smoldering remains of what was once one of the great centers of Islamic culture, with those sort-of deranged fundamentalist bag things over their heads. It should, however, do wonders for enlistments. To heck with all that tired old "see the world" nonsense. The new slogan will be: "Join the Army and force Muslim women to disrobe at gunpoint!" I can see that recruiting commercial now. Two "well equipped" soldier types standing there with a Muslim woman cowering in the rubble, and the one is saying to the other: "Hey, Joe, that one's got a couple of suspicious looking bulges. Get your camera out and we'll take turns searching her for explosives." But, then
again, if it wasn't okay for Coalition soldiers to defile Muslim women,
I'm sure that even the fat, rich jerks who run the Mecca concession would
be mounting a holy war against us at this very moment - however futile
and suicidal it might be. |