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There should be no monument to the Global War on Terror if only because it is a misnomer and that there should be acknowledgement of the difference between the GOP wars in Iraq and and Afghanistan.
by annieli
on Tue Aug 24, 2021 at 10:41 AM PDT
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Over the past two decades, there has been some brilliant reporting by graphic artists, aka drawers of comics, on our seemingly endless involvement in Afghanistan. Now that our invasion seems finally to be ending (well, we’ll see...) I thought I’d start...
by David Michigan
on Tue Aug 17, 2021 at 10:49 AM PDT
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(h/t highacidity) This ending to an involvement that goes back 40 years now reveals itself to be what it always was, an impossible situation that was premised on contradictory motives, waging modern state counter-terror against primitive blasphemy....
by annieli
on Mon Aug 16, 2021 at 10:57 PM PDT
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This was written on 18 April and submitted to The NY Times, Washington Post, and others but none chose to publish it. Now, a scant four months later, it is even more germane as the Taliban rapidly gains control and new forces are being sent to secure...
by JohnBAlexander
on Thu Aug 12, 2021 at 01:54 PM PDT
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If there are epitaphs for the US involvement in Afghanistan, it will resemble the problem of a modern military against a historically unconquerable country built on tribal differences. The winner will be Pakistan and the loser the people of...
by annieli
on Mon May 17, 2021 at 07:53 AM PDT
with 10 Recommends
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by Matt Bors
on Wed Dec 25, 2019 at 04:30 AM PST
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Pick up the new comics anthology I’m putting out, Be Gay, Do Comics: Queer History, Memoir, and Satire from The Nib . 250 pages of comics available through Kickstarter.
by Matt Bors
on Wed Nov 20, 2019 at 04:50 AM PST
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Once again, white mass murder/terrorism has erupted in our world. I don’t think white people are inherently violent, but it sometimes appears so. There is a pernicious ideology permeating white culture—a fantasy of white supremacy. You look at the...
by TomP
on Sat Mar 16, 2019 at 06:22 AM PDT
with 35 Recommends
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Funny how a few years changes everything eh ‘Murica?
And the timing is quite interesting.
Just as we all (yes, even those of us fortunate enough to live beyond your borders) stop and remember the many people we ALL lost on 9/11, we see...
by Potatoheaded Bobby
on Mon Sep 17, 2018 at 11:15 AM PDT
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In 2010, while serving as a private in the US Army, Manning discovered evidence of serious war crimes. The Bush administration had covered this up. She originally planned to deliver the evidence to the New York Times and the Washington Post, but...
by subir
on Wed Jan 17, 2018 at 11:19 AM PST
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For Donald John Trump, Commander-in-Chief: “From now on, victory will have a clear definition” even if it depends on conditions…
A core pillar of our new strategy is a shift from a time-based approach to one based on conditions.
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by annieli
on Mon Aug 21, 2017 at 06:35 PM PDT
with 40 Recommends
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Back in March, a bomb dropped from a US aircraft hit a building in Mosul and caused it to collapse. The strike was called in because Iraqi force on the ground saw two snipers in the building. Once the smoke had cleared, neighbors began pulling bodies...
by subir
on Thu Jun 08, 2017 at 08:34 AM PDT
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Today, the AFP is reporting that coalition airstrikes in the Syrian town of Meyadeen killed 80 people, 33 of whom were civilians. They’re being described as “relatives of ISIS fighters”.
A US-led coalition air strike on the eastern Syrian town of...
by subir
on Fri May 26, 2017 at 08:21 AM PDT
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Mark the calendar: July 6, 2016 is supposed to be the release date for the Chilcot Inquiry Report.
The Iraq Inquiry, also referred to as the Chilcot Inquiry after its chairman, Sir John Chilcot,[1][2] is a British public inquiry into the nation's...
by xaxnar
on Mon Jul 04, 2016 at 12:15 AM PDT
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There has been much speculation and pontificating in the news about Seymour Hersh's article about the real facts surrounding the killing of Osama Bin Laden. The White House has claimed that Hersh's ...
by out of left field
on Mon May 11, 2015 at 08:41 PM PDT
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Where are the Victory Gardens, Soldiers & Sailors? What about War Bonds, subsidized childcare and rationing? Those and much else were part of our last World War and several concerned the Home Front.
by enhydra lutris
on Mon Jan 05, 2015 at 07:04 AM PST
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Originally posted at Fair and Unbalanced
When President Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for "all offenses against the United States," he stated that it was out of concern for the "immediate future of ...
by Lovechilde
on Wed Dec 17, 2014 at 01:21 PM PST
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Niccolo Caldararo in "Afghanistan the U.S.'s Dien Bien Phu?" suggest that the USA in Afghanistan was repeating the mistakes of the French in Vietnam in 1954 when the French airbase at Dien Bien Phu ...
by Peter Dow
on Thu Feb 20, 2014 at 06:42 PM PST
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All the Big GOPers do it. They squeal and cry. They feign weak knees. If it's Boehner, there's tears. All over four dead Americans in Libya. They sell the image of helpless Americans, killed by towel-
by waterstreet2013
on Tue Feb 04, 2014 at 08:55 AM PST
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Benghazi !! Benghazi !!! Benghazi !! Benghazi !!........
Republicans sound sorta like Rudy "9/11" Giuliani. But they've substituted "Banghazi" for the "9/11."
Thing is, the numbers for Obama and ...
by waterstreet2013
on Mon Feb 03, 2014 at 09:25 AM PST
with 6 Recommends
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