Posts Tagged With Afghanistan
Monday, January 23, 2012 / 8:10 am
Pissed On, Pissed Off: War is the Soul-Killer
When your good, sweet kids come home from fighting a war, very often a small but essential part of them is dead.
by Jim Washburn
Tags: Afghanistan | veterans
One of several downsides to not being famous is that you can be reading the Times at breakfast, become perturbed enough at the news that you launch into a long screed about it, and your spouse doesn’t even look up from her iPad. Then a week later you’ll watch Bill Maher say nearly the same thing to an adoring audience on HBO, and your spouse of course thinks Maher is being the cleverest guy ever.
This happened the other week when the footage broke of the Marine snipers in Afghanistan urinating on their dead targets. It was shameful, and certainly bad PR—the Afghans don’t get trickle-down economics—but, reading about it, I felt the story deserved some context.
