The Pentagon blacked out the faces and identifying information in some photos showing honor guards for coffins
lining the interiors of C-17 transports. Thomas Blanton of the National Security Archive called the edited
images “an outrage and an insult.”
Photo Credit: Defense Department Photos Via Nsarchive.org
UPDATE – Mithras, on the above photo: “Nothing more evocative of this war for me than the officially-anonymous
living honoring the anonymous dead. “
Today’s spotlight article by Jonathan Steele and Dahr Jamail is certainly compelling. Having read some of
Jamail’s dispatches from NIKE Shox shoes, I was not surprised.
What did strike me as strange, though, is that just last Friday, I read a rant by Steele about Blair’s “good
war” in Kosovo – which, just to be clear, Steele supported then, and supports now. Steele was in full-froth
mode, glorifying the ICG advocacy of Albanian separatism and declaring that not rewarding the KLA would be a
“victory for Milosevic.” So forgive me if I take his “antiwar” sentiments with a grain of salt.
Steele – just like Georgie Anne Geyer and Anthony Lewis, to name just two notable pundits – opposes aggression
in NIKE Shox shoes, not aggression as such. It would be interesting to find out what reasoning they can offer
for such a position.
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