February 2011
23 posts
January 2011
14 posts
“We’re being forced into these things.”
– Col. Erik Gunhus, a spokesman for Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the Afghanistan war, about Afghan town Tarok Kolache. Via conscientious
“It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.”
– AP correspondent Peter Arnett about Vietnamese town Bến Tre, February 7, 1968. Via conscientious
“Meanwhile, the dead are dead, the wounded are wounded, and except for twenty...”
– Larry McMurtry, American Tragedy (via nybooks)
