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Vacation state of mind, everybody’s got it right now, except for the young college kids flooding the campuses to begin a new year. The preschoolers clutching their Crayolas heading off to kindergarten for the first time.
And then there’s the precious few with something else entirely on their minds, as Bob Herbert poignantly reminds us today. Will we have a thought for them? Will we take time out to do something for them? Do our own part?
Or will we just go along to get along until those little kindergarteners are grown up enough to send off where the blood is spilled for naught.
Four soldiers were killed near Kabul today, an I.E.D. Did you know?
Do you care?
Well, then, what are you going to do about it?
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crossposted at Prairie Sun Rising
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Increased censorship of the news in Afghanistan is happening soon.
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“As more journalists seek permission to accompany U.S. forces engaged in escalating military operations in Afghanistan, many of them could be screened by a controversial Washington-based public relations firm contracted by the Pentagon to determine whether their past coverage has portrayed the U.S. military in a positive light.
U.S. public affairs officials in Afghanistan acknowledged to Stars and Stripes that any reporter seeking to embed with U.S. forces is subject to a background profile by The Rendon Group, which gained notoriety in the run-up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq for its work helping to create the Iraqi National Congress. That opposition group, reportedly funded by the CIA, furnished much of the false information about Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction used by the Bush administration to justify the invasion. “
http://www.stripes.com/article…..icle=64348