Word: iraq
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Upon his return from a brief stint as a correspondent in Iraq (recounted in his previous book, War Reporting for Cowards), British journalist Chris Ayres takes up a job as a Hollywood correspondent for the London Times. There, he witnesses a less violent, but equally disturbing, scene - the rapacious, debt-funded and seemingly insatiable spending habits of upwardly mobile West Coast Americans. Assigned to cover this world, he is compelled to emulate it, purchasing gargantuan televisions, unnecessary beauty treatments, pricey meals, and shady real estate. With dry British wit, he skewers American greed, L.A. life, and his own endless romantic...
That's so weird because when [your previous album] Post-War came out everyone was saying that it was a theme album about what America would be like after Iraq. I assumed that you'd written a number of songs around that. I definitely was inspired by articles I was reading about the war, but the thing that I was most interested in was the cycle - the similarities between what we're going through right now and what people went through after the last war we were in. So I'm more interested in common cycles than writing about something...
Over $12 trillion. This leviathan—the new combined total of the federal bailout—is enough to launch over 13 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or buy about 325 Harvard endowments at the height of prosperity...
...ground should also not be ignored. The repercussions of doing so resound beyond the individual—not only are suicides a tragic and often preventable phenomenon in themselves, but they also lower the morale of troops and the nation as a whole. As we fight two wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the need for high morale is clear. President Obama as commander-in-chief should work to implement higher-quality mental services into hospitals on the ground. The first place these services toward which these services should be directed is Afghanistan, since President Obama has been talking about sending...
...pictures of U.S. troops' five years in Iraq...