sunnyinkabul:futurejournalismproject:The Women of the Afghanistan War The Atlantic’s In Fo
sunnyinkabul: futurejournalismproject: The Women of the Afghanistan War The Atlantic’s In Focus blog has a moving photo gallery depicting women from various aspects of the nearly 12-year-old war. This includes NATO soldiers along with Afghan artists, soldiers, prisoners and rappers among many others. Image: Via The Atlantic — “An Afghan widow takes part in a demonstration at a CARE International food distribution center in Kabul, on March 6, 2006. Hundreds of widows staged a protest as they urged CARE to continue food distribution. (Reuters/Ahmad Masood)” Select to embiggen. If you haven’t seen this photoset yet, you need to. Despite complaints like this: Nice, but IMHO @USArmy female Soldiers are sorely underrepresented. The Women of the Afghanistan War - The Atlantic http://t.co/X51Z6XLPzZ — Juanita Chang (@juanitachang) September 5, 2013 SMDH. (Not to say that female soldiers don’t have a terrible time in Afghanistan and don’t face their own slew of problems within the U.S. military establishment. But let’s talk about having your country torn to pieces for the past 30 years by various groups all trying to force their ideologies on you.) Plus, over a quarter of these pictures feature U.S. troops. Saying this photoset isn’t representative is just plain wrong. -- source link
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