War in America

"A war worker in Phoenix writing to thank her Navy boyfriend in New Guinea for sending her a Japanese soldier's skull, which she named "Tojo"; from LIFE magazine, May 22, 1943"
This photo illustrated Paul Kennedy's review of Niall Ferguson's latest book in the New York Review of Books.

Criticism is fine. But don't forget that the things that Navy seaman did, brutal as they were, made it possible for all you navel-gazers to... well,
- gaze at your navels and write vapid thoughts.
There's a direct, unbroken line between the two.
Posted by: Paolo Mace | August 09, 2007 at 01:20 PM