The first was called "Blaming America First" and took Trump to task for saying, rightly in my view, that the US is not so innocent.
Read it here: "Blaming America First"
A scathing critique of that piece was done by fair.org's Adam Johnson. Read the critique here:
http://fair.org/home/nyt-unlike-russian-wars-us-wars-promote-freedom-and-democracy/
And, on Sunday, the Times printed a piece by an American soldier, who derided the torture at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, but celebrated American heroism for being able to kill lots of Iraqis, honorably. The story also recounts how true American soldiers will medically treat those who we wound in battle. The message: We are exceptional when we stick to our values and these are good wars we are fighting. Torture is not American values, but heroic war-fighting is.
Nothing was said about oil, only about heroes and victims of bad decisions (about torture being legal). A fair exposé of why torture is wrong, but nothing said about the pursuit of this war itself.
Read it here, decide for yourself: "What We're Fighting For" (Phil Klay)
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United States Army soldiers transported Iraqi detainees captured during Operation Steel Curtain in 2005.
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Jehad Nga
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