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LAUGHING DOVES
2011
Overview
A 2006 episode of Comedy Central’sThe Daily Showridiculed an army-sponsored essay contest that solicited new ideas for “countering insurgency” in Iraq. Correspondent John Hodgman read a mock entry which detailed a scheme to “drop thousands of king cobras into Fallujah, each equipped with its own little parachute.” The snakes would then “fight with their magical venom, and turn the Sunnis into Shi’ites and the Shi’ites into Sunnis” (Apr. 25, 2006).The OnionWeb site suggested, likewise, that the Bush administration could “send 30,000 mall security guards to Iraq” (Nov. 10, 2004), “begin calling up Civil War re-enactors for
