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...yellowcake, no turkey farms. The liberation of the Iraqi people from tyranny, originally the icing on the cake for the war’s promoters, is now the sole remaining rationale for American involvement in Iraq. And while this rationale remains a worthy and noble cause, if the freedom of Iraqis is to be the guiding principle of American involvement in Iraq, the manner in which the military conducts its operations must better reflect that...
Killing a citizen of a sovereign nation in order to bring him freedom is morally abhorrent. To be sure, such calculations usually occur in a context where soldiers’ lives are at stake, but if America is to be true to its stated goals of bringing security and stability to the Iraqi people, it is necessary that forces err on the side of civilian safety. At the very least, America must demonstrate a stronger public commitment in this area. In the run-up to these operations, American commanders complained that Falluja General Hospital, an early target of the operation...
...conceives of it, in a British cultural climate in which doing so is almost unthinkably wrong. The pendulous arm of justice, too, presses down on Vera Drake. By the end of the film, it is not just women as a social category who must live without freedom but Vera herself, forced to exchange liberty for captivity and the ultimate sort of crowdedness—that of a prison...
...slavery for a chance to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, complete with unconstitutional reference to God. For the 1.2 billion people around the world living on less than $1 a day, for whom actual elections are a fantasy that comes after staying alive, America is still the land of freedom and opportunity, where you can walk off the boat with $5 in your pocket and make your dreams come true...
...absurdly detailed virtual version of California. There's no hard-and-fast narrative. You go where you wish and do what you like, and the game makes things interesting accordingly. This is something that's possible in no other medium. San Andreas combines the richness of art with the freedom of real life to create something entirely new, totally unclassifiable and really, really cool...