{"id":803,"date":"2007-08-22T11:23:26","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T11:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=803"},"modified":"2007-08-22T11:25:22","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T11:25:22","slug":"the-cultural-war-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"The cultural war continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;When a crow flies over Kandahar, he only flaps one wing.<br \/>\nWith the other wing, he covers his tail&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a quote from a presentation at <a href=\"http:\/\/inmotion.magnumphotos.com\/essays\/taliban.aspx\">Magnum In Motion<\/a> of portraits collected in Afganistan by Thomas Dworzak, and published in a book.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that (so <a href=\"http:\/\/64.233.183.104\/search?q=cache:dJKNBJm4tOEJ:www.counterpunch.org\/kandahar.html+kandahar+one+wing&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;cd=2&amp;client=firefox-a\" title=\"Alexander Cockburn: The Birds of Kandahar\">the internets say<\/a>) one of the reasons why <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mohammed_Omar\" title=\"Mohammed Omar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\">Mullah Omar<\/a> started Taleban was to put an end to homosexual practices?<\/p>\n<p>I was interested in this book as a document of a beautiful portraiture phenomenon until I saw the links at the side, one of which sends you to the CFR.<\/p>\n<p>Is this book &#8216;just an interesting book&#8217; or is it part of the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cultural-Cold-War-World-Letters\/dp\/156584596X\" title=\"Amazon.com: The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters: Books: Frances Stonor Saunders\">Cultural Cold War<\/a>&#8216; as Frances Stonor Saunders describes?<\/p>\n<p>Its a great pity that works like this cannot be delivered neutrally and separated from World Insanity\u2122 because the photographs are very beautiful&#8230;but then, when they are put in a context, <em>that is precisely what they need to be to make you despise Taliban<\/em>, and you need to be made to despise them so that you continue to passively support troops being sent there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When a crow flies over Kandahar, he only flaps one wing. With the other wing, he covers his tail&#8221;. This is a quote from a presentation at Magnum In Motion of portraits collected in Afganistan by Thomas Dworzak, and published in a book. Did you know that (so the internets say) one of the reasons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}