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...study of palms. A vision of some tropical spring break locale, the vertical image captures a leafy overhang that seems to float in mid-air, its ostensible support outside the bounds of the lens. The shadowed interior fronds reveal the internal structure to be hollow. The scene is similarly hollow, empty, deserted. There are two more trees, in at the fore, with one sized more like a shrub, but the viewer can just glimpse an island’s coast, and the open sea, in the background. The contrast between dark and light is artful and the image clear...
...statue of the tyrant fell, it was irresistible, if wrong, to speak of the war in the past tense. Fighting is a physical state; war, in the absence of formal declarations and surrenders, is a state of mind. The battle might drag on bloodily for months. But this moment - hollow Saddam collapsing, his metal insides jutting out - was too perfect, too cinematic, for the war not to be over...
...commander of the Kurdish peshmerga forces, was more frank. "In other cities there was fighting and Saddam's men were either killed or ran away," said Omed Mohammed. The Americans and Kurds entered the city without a fight last Friday, but now are finding that their victory was hollow. "Here there was no war so the fedayeen [Saddam, Uday's paramilitary fighting force] and other members of the security are still here. They just don't go to their offices, but hide in their homes." The famously brave peshmerga won't go to many Arab neighborhoods. "We're afraid," Mohammed...
...Saddam's performance turned out to be the dying gasp of his bloody regime. His supposed defense of Iraq and the greater Arab nation came down to a hollow spectacle. And by Wednesday it had given way to the long-awaited TV images of Iraqis cheering his overthrow. The scenes were particularly jubilant in the Baghdad neighborhood called Saddam City, a dense housing project for Shiite Muslims - a community historically excluded from political power in Iraq. All over the city, the ubiquitous statues of Saddam are being destroyed...
...Gulf War II, it's become apparent that respect for America has severely diminished. Pledges to bring freedom and (maybe) democracy to the citizens of Saddam's horrifying regime?which only Tony Blair articulated effectively during a U.N. debate marked by the cynical opportunism of all parties involved?ring hollow when voiced by the Bush camp. Making war to bring peace is a hard sell, especially when TV images provide stark reminders of the real human costs of that conflict. What's more, though the war in Iraq is still in its early stages, the inability...