Three Monkeys Online

A Curious, Alternative Magazine

A Flair for Decoration

Watching General David Petraeus’s attempt to sell President Bush’s surge strategy to U.S. senators, I’ve been distracted by the matrix of ribbons and badges adorning the general’s chest, the profusion of which would not embarrass the late Leonid Brezhnev. Some of this luxuriant military “flair” is glossed here.