
@attackerman ("Spencer Ackerman") retweeted:
@rozina_ali ("Rozina Ali") wrote:
"Body counts, the Pentagon declared, were strategically irrelevant. This made a certain intuitive sense – body counts can't measure a war's fortunes – but performed a crucial elision, substituting the interests of the Pentagon for the interests of the truth."
with quote tweet:
@attackerman ("Spencer Ackerman") wrote:
New Forever Wars is out and be warned this is a brutal read. I’ve been struggling for a while to write about the War on Terror institutionalizing mass killing while concealing not only the scale of the dead but their names.
https://foreverwars.substack.com/p/say-their-names-05a