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Colleen LaRose, an American citizen from Pennsylvania who went by the online handle Jihad Jane, was indicted on March 9 for conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and plotting to murder a Swedish cartoonist whose depiction of the Prophet Muhammad had angered Muslims. LaRose, 46, had been in custody since October. Assistant Attorney General for National Security David Kris said the suspect's being a suburban American woman "underscores the evolving nature of the threat we face...
...Iraq-war movies. Four or five years ago, at the height of the insurgency, that was because there were no Iraq-war movies. (Vietnam, while it raged, suffered the same Hollywood blackout.) But even when some directors grew a spine and attempted to dramatize the effects of the American adventure on its soldiers (In the Valley of Elah) and civilians (Lions for Lambs) or on U.S. foreign policy (Rendition), the response was tepid. No Middle East war film has earned even $50 million at the domestic box office, and the one that came closest, The Kingdom, was a gung...
...good soldier who realizes that his mission - to unearth the weapons of mass destruction the Bush Administration used as a rationale for invading Iraq - is bogus. Now, dammit, he'll find what's behind that ruse, even if his life is threatened by renegade Baathists and the American high command. Soon he's a one-man army, going rogue or Rambo, dodging not-so-friendly fire and outwrestling an Iraqi thug. He's Bourne again, in Baghdad. (See pictures of the U.S. troops in Iraq...
...Green Zone. In it, the Washington Post reporter detailed the arrogance and naiveté of the young zealots the Bush Administration sent to pacify Iraq: how they frolicked beside Green Zone swimming pools as if Baghdad were spring-break Fort Lauderdale, handed out tens of millions in cash to American and Iraqi connivers and blithely mismanaged the occupation into chaos...
...call things like Facebook social media, but contrary to its image, TV is also inherently social, at least when it comes to big games, big galas or American Idol finales. People throw parties around it; they watch it to be able to talk to other people about it. Social media enhance rather than replace events like the Oscars and - important when DVRs let people record shows and skip the ads - make watching them in real time worthwhile so people can be in on the conversation. Because as much as we like to watch, we like to talk...