Tag: Afghanistan
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It’s a paradox: Dominic Tierney’s political platitudes
One can almost picture Tierney offering platitudes to undergraduates at Swarthmore as he scribbles dates and quotes on the whiteboard, asking “Can America return to victory?” But by whose measure, and for what cause, should the United States return to victory?
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The war tried to kill us… The majesty of The Yellow Birds
What bleeds from these passages are not the musings of a stubborn and hungry war-machine created by the world’s most powerful military, it’s the seething helplessness felt by those tasked with responsibilities most colossal: to feign power when positioned as pawn.
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Video: Seamus Murphy’s A Darkness Visible
In a part of the world few understand, and even fewer have thought to try, Seamus Murphy’s profile of Afghanistan is hauntingly beautiful, informative and well-worth the time.
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War from the Front Row
In a world awash with images, even the most powerful can fail to draw attention. Even if that image is iconic, even if that image means or meant something more than pixels, more than a mere captured frame and a simple moment snapped in time. No, an image that can be replaced may not be…
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A Night Talking Terrorists
The book traces the development of United States policy in the fight against terrorism, taking the reader from the first confused moments of that Tuesday morning, to the orchestrated strike against Osama bin Laden’s fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan which took the Al Qaeda leader’s life.
Adam McCauley 