This Post writer's complaint about the hand off is that the ceremony wasn't effectively stage managed for the Arab media. Not enough, to use Wesley Clark's words from this morning's Today show, "pomp and circumstances."
Fair enough, it was a rushed ceremony and there's no hiding that or the reasons for it, but lets also be honest about the fact that had there been an elaborate ceremony -- particularly if the Arab channels had received special invitations -- then the complaint would have been that the thing was stage managed to manipulate Arab opinion. The writer assumes that there's some way to win a rigged game, and that's never been true.
Ritual matters to people, and at some point there's going to have be some kind of elaborate ceremony or ritual or party to mark officially the end of the occupation and the beginning of a new Iraq. But you can't force people to feel a particular way through a ritual they feel is imposed over a situation; it has to be organic and it has to feel appropriate. Yesterday was not the moment. Soon, but not today.
It's just a shame that the media would not allow the American public to share the joy of Iraqis on this occasion. Michele Catalanos' blog has a roundup of the bloggers' posts that day.
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