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The Cost of War

November 3, 2008 islamoyankee

Haroon links to some goodness on Afghanistan.

The Atlantic has an email from Afghanistan.

Nick Kristof on building schools.

The New Yorker on the individual cost of war for an Iraqi veteran.

The New Yorker also had a moving photoessay on the cost of war. The photo below is from the series. It’s same photo Colin Powell mentioned in his Obama endorsement.

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