Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War

by Evan Wright

The desert pan is so hard here, where a few inches beneath the sandy topsoil it’s interlaced with vestigial coral from the era when this was underwater (specifically, as part of the Persian Gulf, which used to be a sea covering all of Kuwait and southern Iraq), that every inch has to be hacked away with pickaxes, the blades sparking with each blow to the stoney crust.

“You’re welcome. Vote Republican.”