
The American Taliban
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The Importance of Ethical Compliments in the Prisoner of War Situation
In the month after John was captured, there were 581 news stories about him. Because he's Arab, the rest of the country is kind of like, oh, okay. He only appeared in the media 13 times. And so a lot of the narrative around John was sort of this betrayal of whiteness, this betrayal of sort of Americanness. Yeah. So they are victims of the same thing, right? Neither one of them had any idea this uprising was going to happen. No. I found footage where they interview the CNN journalist, Matt Lauer interviews him and you know, he's talking about like, we pulled John out of this basement. But anyway, he was such
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