It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday

For the last-ever Crappy Hour I’ll do, Megan Carpentier and I wonder about the effects on Afghan women of the CIA’s Viagra distribution program. Unapologetically discomforting and, I daresay, rigorous. Everything this feature ought to be and, I darehope, an argument for why it should not be cancelled.

SPENCER: … Are we in a situation where the expected consequence of the CIA Viagra program is marital rape? Should everyone who isn’t Dennis Prager find this problematic?

MEGAN: Well, are we in a situation where we would deny that such is a possibility? I don’t think we make good policy by ignoring the consequences, nor am I saying that giving the dudes Viagra is not preferable to giving them, say, weapons. But is it possible that we’re providing them with the means to force themselves on their wives (who likely had no choice in being their wives) that nature has otherwise denied them? Yes.

A discussion of marital rape and foreign policy is not the place to get sentimental, but I really do wish that Crappy Hour wasn’t getting canceled. If wishes were horses and all that. But even accepting that it’s ending next week, I can honestly say that a morning internet feature has very unexpectedly yielded me one of my closest friends, so you can’t tell me that it wasn’t worthwhile.