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The American television media tended to treat the photos of torture at Abu Ghraib as the only important evidence of military wrongdoing, allowing the construction of the "few bad apples" narrative to gather continued legitimacy. In his reporting on the scandal for the New York Review of Books, foreign affairs correspondent Danner sought to show how
The American television media tended to treat the photos of torture at Abu Ghraib as the only important evidence of military wrongdoing, allowing the construction of the "few bad apples" narrative to gather continued legitimacy. In his reporting on the scandal for the New York Review of Books, foreign affairs correspondent Danner sought to show how
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IN NOVEMBER of 2003 in Iraq, I traveled to Falluja during the early days of what would become known as the "Ramadan Offensive"-when suicide bombers in the space of less than an hour destroyed the Red Cross headquarters and four police stations, and daily attacks by insurgents against US troops doubled, and the American adventure in Iraq entered a bleak tunnel from which it has yet to emerge. Read the first page
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IN NOVEMBER of 2003 in Iraq, I traveled to Falluja during the early days of what would become known as the "Ramadan Offensive"-when suicide bombers in the space of less than an hour destroyed the Red Cross headquarters and four police stations, and daily attacks by insurgents against US troops doubled, and the American adventure in Iraq entered a bleak tunnel from which it has yet to emerge. Read the first page
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