Seeing Iraqia celebration of the football victory and the carnage that happend when militias decided to bomb them, I got remembered on a fact I nearly forgot about the U.S. militarys planning for the war in Iraq: the two tons of frisbees the 1st marine division ordered for distribution among Iraqis, who were supposed to celebrate the U.S. soldiers as liberators.
On those frisbees, the word 'friendship' was printed in English and Arabic: hoe naive, absurd and uninformed... Iraq never turned out to be a frisbee country anyway, if anything it became a boomerang.
As a source for this story, I have to use a diary I wrote in April 2004, citing a George Will column and a quote from Spirit of America blog, which are no longer online.
I figured that - all the tragic beside - that was the absurdest decision in the preparation for this ill-fated war... the 1st marine division should have brought body armor instead.