Last night I heard on NPR news, "Today's headlines... 100 days until the transfer of power in Iraq" (from memory, not an exact quote). So in other words, nothing particular happened in Iraq today, so the story they're running is that something is going to happen 100 days from now.
What troubles me, as a Buddhist and otherwise, is that plenty of things did happen today, but the headline isn't about that. In fact, I'm sure that plenty of things happened in Iraq today, and anyone in Iraq could tell you that something happened, and perhaps it's something significant - in fact, a glance at the Iraq Coalition Casualty List page shows that quite a few things happened, including several people losing their lives. But that's not as important as noting that something will happen 100 days from now. Today, I presume, we'll hear a story about how the transfer of power in Iraq will happen 99 days from now.
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