PBS NOW - 2006 03 31 - Afghanistan: The Other War and Soldiers in Iraq (TVRip SoS)

HIT OR MISS IN IRAQ What's working and what's failing in the U.S.-led effort to battle the Iraqi insurgents? Video journalist Brian Palmer, who was recently embedded with U.S. Marines in Iraq's volatile Anbar province, gives us an uncensored, inside look at the extremely dangerous and often overwhelming job of fighting the committed insurgency. "I don't see any more good coming out of being here," Lance Corporal Damon Broussard told Palmer. "You can only make so much progress and then you have the guys hiding behind the scenes planting IEDs and stuff...You can only do so much until you friggin' slam your face into the wall so many times." AFGHANISTAN: THE "OTHER WAR" David Brancaccio interviews writer Christian Parenti about his latest trip to Afghanistan. Parenti provides an insider's view of what's really going on in America's "other war." Parenti is a correspondent for THE NATION, and the author of three books: "The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq", "The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror," and "Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis." == runtime = 25.5mins xvid.640x480.840kbps.mp3.103.vbr Federal funding for CPB/PBS is going to be cut significantly over the next two years, so if you watch any of these programs, please support your local PBS Station by making a contribution or by purchasing their DVDs. == SoS = http://www.sonofshun.com/forums ------------ Content Type: [Documentary] [News] [Talk]