Faces of War

This excellent photograph by Mauricio Lima portrays a part of the bigger picture of the war in Afghanistan.

Credit: Mauricio Lima for The New York Times.  This picture was the 9/9/12 NYT cover photo and is part of the online slideshow: Afghans Wary in Push for Mineral Riches.

From this vantage point, the economic motives for going to war are pretty clear. 
On one extreme, we're on our way to seeing the planet become one big factory -- at least until production peaks, ecosystems irrevocably collapse, or humanity destroys itself in a nuclear holocaust.   But maybe humans will become more bad ass and start standing up for ourselves, each other, and for nature, and then pull through.  Please?

These next two photogrpahs were printed in Adbusters a couple of years ago.  The trash that the Afghans in the photographs are digging through was discarded by troops stationed at Bagram Airfield.