My eyes rolled so hard you could hear the click in the next room when I read this.
Italics mine. Merde.
According to the editors of Reuters, this is one of the “best pictures from the last 24 hours”:
Beyond the echo of Roland Barthes’ famous essay “Myth Today” (1954), this image of a U.S. soldier—from the 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment—patrolling eastern Baghdad yesterday, Jan 30, is deeply sad. There is no greatness, no nobility, no hope here, just a nothingness stemming from the fact that the unfortunate black man and the unfortunate Arabs could by now, by today, Jan 31, be as dead as that flower.
Italics mine. Merde.
