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Avallone: "Flirting with Afghanistan" 1
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Diana West
Sunday, January 31, 2010 7:01 AM
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As promised, the first installment of "Flirting with Afghanistan: Dispatches from the Frontline." Text, photographs and captions by Paul Avallone.
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Get Ready for Tattoo Zoo
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Diana West
Friday, August 08, 2014 10:42 AM
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Announcing Tattoo Zoo, a new novel by Paul Avallone, whose clarifying essays and remarkable photos have previously appeared at this website. Paul Avallone... |
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It's Really That Simple
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Diana West
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 10:50 AM
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Former Green Beret (including the Afghan War) and photojournalist Paul Avallone just sent me two of his photos emblazoned with a cut from a recent post of mine. My idea of a perfect collaborative effort -- thanks, Paul.
Here's the first:
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"They're Killing Us Because We're Infidels"
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Diana West
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:53 AM
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AP Photo: Lance Cpl. Greg Buckley Jr.'s father Greg, foreground, and mother Marina are escorted from St. Agnes Cathedral after his funeral Mass, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012, in Rockville Center, N.Y.. Buckley Jr. was barely 21 years old when he was killed in... |
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Petraeus Always Gets a Pass
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Diana West
Saturday, July 16, 2011 7:01 AM
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ISAF caption: Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta, Afghanistan's National Security Advisor, and General Petraeus discuss the importance of reducing... |
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Taking It All Back
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Diana West
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 7:18 AM
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John Bernard of Let Them Fight has drawn my attention to an extraordinary comment appended to his post this week featuring the views of Ben Shaw, a combat veteran and embedded reporter in Afghanistan.
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Postcard from Afghanistan
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Diana West
Saturday, January 30, 2010 7:35 AM
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This is a "postcard" from Afghanistan created by ex-Green Beret, sometime- writer-journalist Paul Avallone. The dark humor of the captions is one way to defuse the nakedly discomforting essence of the bizarre and the malevolent on display in the photo he took -- a picture of people our troops have been ordered to bribe, placate, and, I'm afraid, serve, in a disastrous policy that amounts to submission. What else can we call a war policy that puts United States Marines in charge of mosque-building?
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Meanwhile, Back in Afghanistan ...
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Diana West
Saturday, January 23, 2010 3:31 AM
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Stars and Stripes photo: Pvt. Abdulaziz Alqahtani, who serves with the special security force from Bahrain, is among 125 troops from the Muslim nation deployed to Helmand province, Afghanistan.
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