Tag: Iraq
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On the Road: Detangling ISIS (Updated)
An important review, by an unidentified author, in this week’s New York Review of Books, argues that ISIS’s resurgence cannot be explained by much more than the availability, suddenly, of “a territory available to attract and house” it’s motivated members. That ISIS exists because it can exist is a tautology the author admits, but their…
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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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Resisting Resistance: Why Syria isn’t Rwanda…. Or Iraq.
Either way, the distinction in approach should prod a reader towards the ultimate question: On what grounds should the international community (or even The United States) risk the lives of their own for others?
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Postmortem: PTSD and Conflict Photographers
Reflecting on Overexposed: A Photographer’s War with PTSD.
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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 