Here’s a gathering of articles and editorials from around the country on the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War.
The Miami Herald: 4,000 Americans, innumerable Iraqis, $3 trillion
Huffington Post: Iraq by the numbers
Editor & Publisher: 5 years ago many newspapers oppposed war
The American Prospect: Five years later
Democracy Now: Winter [...]
Five years and hundreds of lies later, here we are. Approaching 4,000 American lives lost. Up to 100,000 estimated wounded Americans. 1,189, 173 Iraqi deaths. Millions of Iraqis displaced. A civil war. Al Qaeda IS in Iraq now. A demolished infrastructure. A broken U.S. military. No sign [...]
The Freeway Blogger has more of these (via Skippy).
As we discussed in “The Poetry of War,” our “Deciders” do not understand sacrifice. As Garry Trudeau put it, they believe we must “stay the course. We cannot dishonor the upcoming sacrifice of those who have yet to die.” Death is a tragedy, but [...]
From Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, translated by Paul Reps:
Once a division of the Japanese army was engaged in a sham battle, and some of the officers found it necessary to make their headquarters in Gasan’s temple.
Gasan told his cook: “Let the officers have only the same simple fare we eat.”
This made the army [...]
(This week marks the fifth anniversary of the United States’ invasion of Iraq. This post is for the Iraq War Blogswarm and as part of a ongoing Series on War.)
There is no poetry to war itself. There is, however, some famous poetry about war, some of which depicts it as glorious, while other [...]
