Iraq and Afghanistan War Archives - Page 11 of 26

Notes Photo September 2, 2009

Face of America: Mercenaries Still Out Front

This morning's NYT details the historic and eye-popping percentage of mercenaries and outside contractors running America's war in Afghanistan. One has only to scan the newswire pics concerning Afghanistan to turn up a specimen like this.

Notes Photo August 27, 2009

Rove’s Fun and Games in the Name of Wounded Warriors

If Karl Rove is so intent on exploiting the kind of suffering that would lead a veteran and/or his family to question the worth of existence, he should tell it to the people paying for his handiwork, not Sean Hannity.

Notes Photo August 2, 2009

At War

just don't see why Mike Greentree has to be cardboard.

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Gates in Baghdad: Three Day Old Fish

In light of a recent military memo regarding the rapid deterioration of U.S. - Iraqi military cooperation, these photos of Secretary Gates hobnobbing with Iraqi military last Tuesday in Baghdad and Talil are just pure propaganda.

Notes Photo July 21, 2009

Bagram: Nobody Here But Us Humanitarians

One of the hallmarks of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns has been the absurd disconnect between what the military showcases for the visual media as compared to what otherwise is happening "on the ground."

Notes Photo July 19, 2009

Taliban Hearts CNN

Just this morning comes the first use of another weapon of assymetrical warfare, the Taliban engaging the "battle space" of the media sphere.

Notes Photo July 16, 2009

Chris Hondros on "The Hurt Locker"

I’ve been waiting for a truly great movie about the Iraq War. I know it’s still going on, but don’t think it’s impossible to ask for one. The issue is important to me, since like many journalists who have frequented Iraq I’ve often been frustrated by the public’s lack of...

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Afghanistan: On The Rise

With American casualties on the rise as the result of the U.S. escalation, what is the chance of this kind of imagery -- amidst the noise of ultimately uneventful happenings like the the Sotomayor hearings or the G-8 summit -- capturing domestic attention?

Notes Photo July 3, 2009

Hands of Victory

A telling image as the U.S. military withdraws from Iraqi cities in favor of large and discrete operating bases.

Notes Photo June 29, 2009

Fireworks Over Baghdad

People watch fireworks above Baghdad in celebration of Tuesday's withdrawal of U.S. troops from all Iraqi cities.

Notes Photo June 7, 2009

The Colbert/Newsweek Iraq Cover (or, Someone We Admire Yelling It At Us)

Stephen Colbert turns himself into a national billboard to shout at us (through parody, of course) about the men and women who have been forsaken for carrying out a forsaken war.

Notes Photo May 31, 2009

American Graft

What interests me about Richard Mosse photo-documentation of Saddam's palaces is how the American occupation has grafted America onto Iraq or embedded our fingerprints in a more psychic way.

Notes Photo May 24, 2009

Pink skivvies: Whitewashing The Afghan Campaign

So this May 11 image of Spc. Zachary Boyd of Fort Worth, Texas, fighting the Taliban in his pink "I love NY" boxer shorts has "gone iconic." ...How Norman Rockwell.

Notes Photo May 15, 2009

Reparations

I found this photo (of an Afghan widow receiving reparation money for a U.S. air strike) just devastating

Notes Photo May 12, 2009

Your Turn: Tuesday Would Have Been His 21st Birthday

Are these Dover images just getting more creative now that many bodies have returned, or is there more being said here?

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McKiernan: It Was Great Knowing You… Whatever You Said

The outright firing of McKiernan sends a blatant and uncerimonious message. According to the NYT: "Pentagon officials said it appeared that General McKiernan was the first general to be dismissed from command of a theater of combat since Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War."

Notes Photo May 2, 2009

The Texas Pioneer Adventure Is Closed

This photo, taken by contributer Nina Berman, shows an Iraqi immigrant on a group visit, with other Iraqi women, to a park and arboretum in Texas. It does not specifically show discouragement or exclusion. It does not specifically demonstrate Iraqi refugees coming to the U.S. in a pioneering spirit...

Notes Photo April 27, 2009

Our Friend Maliki

If Obama and Maliki offer the picture of balance, it's not hard to imagine Rahm and U.S. Commander General in Iraq Ordieno representing a more unguarded impression of the Iraqi leadership.