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A post from Emma Gilbey Keller, editor of DoubleX's Your Comeback blog:
It strikes me that today’s military moms bear some resemblance to
the medical moms of yesterday. Both doctors and soldiers choose intense
schedules that pit saving lives against time away from the lives of
their children. Both make huge sacrifices but can benefit from a
significant financial payoff. Both continue to struggle for flexibility
and recognition in a traditionally paternalistic system. The battles
fought by mothers who were doctors 10 or 20 years ago sound remarkably
similar to the professional struggles of those who serve in the armed
forces now.
Yet the difference is obvious and stark. If ever there was an
example that choice means giving rather than taking, it can be seen in
the mothers in the military who are prepared to die for their country.
The minutiae of their domestic tribulations pale in comparison to this
greatest what if: What if they don’t come home and their kids are left motherless? ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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A post from Double X writer Meredith Simons:
It looks like the war on terror might not reshape just how Americans fight overseas, but also how academics fight in the classroom. Marc Lynch at Foreign Policy has been writing about the influx of vets who served in Iraq and Afghanistan into Middle Eastern studies programs in the United States. Lynch's remarks hint at a fear among some academics that this new wave of presumably pro-government, pro-gun students might shift international studies departments to the right ... (Read more in Double X.)
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A newly published paper in the journal Media, War, and Conflict dissects “the art of shoe-throwing”
in light of George Bush’s December near-encounter with the liberated
footwear of an Iraqi journalist. Though the political significance of
shoes predates the incident—statues of Saddam were so pelted back in
2003—the University of Brighton’s Yasmin Ibrahim argues that Bush
helped set off a wave of loafer-related uprisings ... (Read more in Double X.)
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A post from Double X writer Vanessa M. Gezari:
Philip Gourevitch’s piece in Sunday’s New York Times adds
another compelling argument to the ones I’ve been making recently about
why releasing more photos of detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan is
a bad idea. Obama first supported the release of the latest batch of
photos but subsequently changed his mind, saying
that the pictures in question are associated with “closed
investigations” in which the perpetrators have already been identified
and sanctioned, and that they “would not add any additional benefit” to
our understanding of detainee treatment in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Gourevitch, who has written a book about the soldiers who took many of the photos at Abu Ghraib, rightly notes that... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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