47,245 Civilians Killed 2,442 US Troops Killed 20,666 US Troops Wounded 66,000 - 69,000 Afghan Troops Killed $2.26 Trillion Taxpayer Dollars Via NPR. And then: Just days before, Pardis had confided to his friend that he was receiving death threats from the Taliban, who had discovered he had work…
/misc/t/tony-benn-speech.mp4 I finish just by saying this: war is an easy thing to talk about; there are not many people - a - of the generation that remember it. The right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup served with distinction in the last war. I never killed anyone but I wore uniform. But…
A masterpiece. Powerful and harrowing. Glad I stayed till the end of the credits. Still, the film doesn’t hold back in its depiction of the brutality of trench combat, and how most British soldiers started seeing the war as a pointless effort the longer it dragged on. “The strongest opinion they wo…