More Damaging Pictures of US Troops in Afghanistan

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In today's LA Times, US soldiers pose with corpses of Afghans who apparently blew themselves up. Also, will Spain sink the Euro? Could LA become a city of walkers?

Today's Los Angeles Times made news from LA to Washington to Kabul with pictures of American soldiers posing with the body parts of dead Afghans who apparently blew themselves up. Is such behavior understandable? Is it forgivable? Also, As Spain becomes the latest target of demands for austerity, such measures in Greece, Ireland and Italy appear to have increased suicide rates, sex traffic and HIV. Plus, LA is the archetypical home of the automobile.  Could it be turned into a city of walkers?

Banner image: Photo of the April 18, 2012 edition of the LA Times showing US soldiers and Afghan policemen posing with the remains of a suspected suicide bomber in Afghanistan. (Times building is seen in the background.) Photo by Joe Klamar/AFP/GettyImages

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Warren Olney

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Frances Anderton, Christian Bordal, Andrea Brody, Caitlin Shamberg, Katie Cooper, Sonya Geis