Our Take on Video Showing Marines Urinating on Taliban
For an act of humiliation, these guys are pretty discreet about showing their members.
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Osama-Obama: How Al Jazeera Framed the bin Ladin Erasure
The frame Al Jazeera chose characterizes the operation as a contest for hearts and minds.
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Da Dumpt, Da Dumpt …. Sucks 2 Be U
I wonder whether these soldiers, at least in part, might have been motivated to make a statement, before we turned over our bases, that punctuated how we engaged in a war for no real good reason.
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Iraq Pullout: America Still Golden
Just as George Bush early on linked patriotism to going shopping, it seems that the residual accomplishment of the Iraq War was the preservation of America's popular culture and consumer way of life.
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LA Times Deifies, Mythologizes Fallen Troops. What Friendly Fire?
In conjunction with Christ-like comparisons to the scene at Golgotha and parallels to Iwo Jima, the context that these Marines died as leaders in combat maintains the accepted mythology of ‘the way Americans die.’
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Size Matters: Obama, the Military and the Pull-Out
Friday's White House "Photo of the Day" is actually pretty funny, given the grumbling Obama is hearing over the Iraq pullout.
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“Out, Damn Spot!”
In America's war on terrorism (given our Christian sensibilities), "cleanliness is next to godliness.”
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Why the Photo of the Afghan Soldiers Behind the Tree Was in So Many Photo Galleries Tuesday
Well sure, it's a dramatic and totally kinetic shot, but it has a political twist as well.
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Your Turn: Rick Perry Supports Our Troops
It's a picture that leaped into my head over a week ago, and I can't stop thinking about. I'm interested in how you look at it.
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Facing Our Warriors (Before, During and After)
Taken as a piece, the three portraits mark the subtle, psychic metamorphosis of a young man who has encountered the experience of war.
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Sarkozy Buzzes and Poses While Karzai's Brother Crashes and Burns
In a brilliant stroke of bad timing, Sarkozy buzzes around in a French helicopter at the same time Karzai's powerful brother is killed by a likely Taliban-sympathizing body guard.
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So Long, Goliath!
Sensing America has basically thrown in the towel in Afghanistan, visual media is already busy fleshing out the picture.
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White House Flickr Snapshot – Late June '11 Edition (#1): War and Economy
The lack of focus on the war or the economy in the last group of photos uploaded to the White House Flickr stream is a real mystery.
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Afghanistan, the Barking Dog
The photo is one of the most telling I've seen on the Afghanistan war.
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About That Drawdown
On the eve of Obama's announcement to end his surge and commence a drawdown, do you think the foot soldier here has a subtle message either for military strategists, or do you think this is how he ordinarily scratches his nose?
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Seeing Double in Afghanistan
If you think about it, this photo may be one answer to the question that hangs over the war in Afghanistan. That question is, what are we seeing, really?
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Dover Finale?
Might the scale and theater here embody raised hopes of a possible end game in Iraq and Afghanistan?
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