The Surge: If America is Really Looking At Resuscitating the Afghans….
The reason this photo touches a nerve right now is because it hits, in the most graphic and "unspun" way, at America's frenzied resuscitation effort in propping up Afghanistan, and especially, its military.
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The Surge: Now You Know
From watching the audience pans during the telecast and then looking at stills, the problem with Obama's Afghan escalation speech was evident in the room.
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Scoring the Surge: McChrystal 30,000, Obama ’12
McChrystal finally smiling as Obama gives in to the surge.
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Your Turn: Afghanistan — The Read from the Situation Room
In the last 13 days, the White House has posted only three photos to its Flickr stream, two of the three (the latest, yesterday) on the critical Afghan policy review. BAGnewsNotes readers deconstruct what they have to say.
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War Grief in All Its Faces
What the photos demonstrate is that military families can lose their loved ones to circumstances other than death on the battlefield.
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Obama’s Future
It would be easy to turn the photo into some kind of sci-fi novelty if it weren't for the solemnity of the moment -- Obama's early morning presence at Dover for returning caskets of U.S. personnel.
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Afghanistan Reboot: Kerrying the Day
Really, is anybody thinking about how this looks -- with John Kerry leading the Afghanistan re-boot?
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Afghanistan, in Aggregate
Similar photos from Afghanistan, featured the same day by TIME and The Economist, call out the extreme political situation in Afghanistan.
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My War. No, Your War. No…
McChrystal's face seems a perfect reflection of a country that draws in outsiders, then suffocates them.
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Facing Afghanistan
This image by photographer and friend of BAGnews Peter van Agtmael doesn't just bring into sharp focus the haplessness of the U.S. engagement, but crystallizes it and shouts it out.
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Four Soldiers
I am curious to know if the New York Times had ever offered a war zone image on the front page only featuring women soldiers.
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Mind Games
Media loves a boogey man -- which is that much more obvious looking at this recent Newsweek cover glorifying the threat of the Taliban ... one which the Administration is signaling might be a straw man.
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Afghan Strategy: Hell If I Know
While McChrystal is focused on why an attack on a few Taliban-hijacked fuel tankers went so wrong, check the map, folks, check the map.
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Kalid Sheik Muhammed has a New Photo Out. (Lock Down the Ports!)
With al-Qaeda playing a much weaker hand these days, can a photograph have that kind of power -- more so, say, than the power of the neocons to invest that much fear in one?
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Poster Boy
The prompt here is to consider what the man in the street is thinking given how that we're propping up Karzai after he tampered with and likely stole the election.
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Afghanistan: Seeds Of Our Own Destruction
This latest NATO/U.S. airstrike to go bad was called in by German forces responsible for the mostly quiet Kunduz area in the Afghan north. Might this drive the German's out?
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Photo of a Dying Marine: The Larger View
BAGnewsNotes offers a few takes on the controversy surrounding the release of a photo showing fatal injuries to a U.S. Marine in Afghanistan.
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