In the Land of the Stoner Cops

Mother Jones by Nir Rosen | Feb. 8, 2010 (Special Report)

See a photo essay about the teams of Afghans who risk their lives to disable explosives here. MAJOR JIM CONTRERAS was awaiting his marching orders. Literally. Stuck in Lashkar Gah, the capital of the Afghan province of Helmand, he was supposed to take his troops, along with a unit of an elite Afghan police force known as ANCOP, to secure the area around Nawa, so the people there could vote. It was part of the past year's biggest US offensive against the ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Feb 8, 2010 - 4:01 AM PST
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Feb. 8, 2010

I found this an odd piece. It's goes into vivid detail of the events experienced as the author was embedded with the US military, but doesn't effectively connect those stories with COIN. And there's no opposing voice offered.

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