Hilariously or Just Sincerely Tragic: Closing Scenes from America's Afghan War
Macho, playful or just cinematic, Burton's photos from this Reuters embed are just too innocent, too uncomplicated to be taken at face value.
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POY Winners: Terror Comes Home
Jonathan Blunk wasn't killed in Kabul or Helmand or Kandahar or or Ghazni or Wardak or Khost but in the Dark Knight theater shooting in Aurora.
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Slinking Out of Afghanistan? Not So Fast.
Leave it to Getty's Chip Somodevilla to immortalize the hint before Obama and the United States silently execute the final exit.
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U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Made Token and Awkward Turkey Day Appearance
If you saw the photos and video of U.S. troops having a Thanksgiving meal in Kabul that circulated a few days ago, they seemed to have a sad, orphan vibe to to them.
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Afghan Skid: A Sad Day When we Have to Resort to the Taliban for our War Media
Two significant “insider attacks” by Afghan alliance troop on U.S. soldiers, eight Afghan women killed in a NATO airstrike and an attack on a major British airbase that consumed $150 million worth of fighter jets and other things. All within the past week. And the sad truth is that,...
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Notes from Look3: Ferrato, Addario Quick Takes. Lynsey's Aisha.
Things have gotten better in Afghanistan, especially for women. That's not saying there isn't a long way to go, but it's better.
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Notes from Look3: Stanley Greene's Fallujah Bridge Photo
"In the day time, I keep you alive," the driver told Green, and "at night I go kill Americans."
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Juxtaposition of the Day: Team Bush vs. Team Obama at the War Theatre
Like a frame from an old B-movie war comedy, the difference is tragic.
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Reading the Photo of U.S. Troops Posing With Afghan Suicide Bomber Body Parts
Before The LA Times takes too much credit for putting forth two images (out of eighteen) of U.S. troops posing with body parts of Afghan suicide bombers, let's note that the only overt suicide bomber photo is hard to even make out.
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Rotor Wash, In/Visibility of the Afghan War, and My Excellent Weekend at Indiana U.
If the photo gallery is supposed to be about the handover of responsibility to the Afghanis, where are the picture of it and why does it conclude with a French unit "holding down the fort"?
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AP Photo of Afghan Suicide Bombing: Revisiting the Censorship of Images of Wounded American Soldiers
If there is anything that is shocking to me about the subject at this point, it's that the visual censorship of these wars has been so absolute that many today fail to understand why such scenes would be even be relevant to see.
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And DOD's Flattering Pics of Bales are Evidence of What?
In releasing these healthy and hearty photos of Robert Bales in the field, is the DOD looking out for its soldier, or for a system that broke him?
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Juxtaposition of the Day: The Terror. We're On It.
The visuals of the tragedy in Afghanistan and how the Obama Administration is dealing with it.
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Afghanistan Kumbaya
I was already feeling manipulated by this photo in early February, and that's before things went from worse to unfathomable.
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Photo Prize Update: Afghan War As Groundhog Day Trauma Loop
Over this almost four year photographic span, the message on its face is that the Afghan campaign continues to suck the life force out of America and its troops.
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Last Word on the Afghan War: That’s Entertainment?
Afghan landscape meets global war on terror meets ... John Bonham?
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U.S. Air Power in Afghanistan: From Ineffective to Disastrous — but Kinder, Gentler, and a Different Kind of Sexy
Despite our counterproductive air war, media embedding continues to pay off for the Pentagon in sympathetic coverage and cool pictures -- muscular and otherwise.
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Still More Disturbing Pictures from the Afghan War: Obama and the Too-Shiny Marine
Perhaps what we're really looking at in these photos are cultural victims whose primary failing is to stand for the gap between a war off its rails and the propaganda effort still in place to sell it.
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