Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} After 911 America's War on Terror by Sid Jacobson After 9-11 America's War on Terror GN (2008 Hill and Wang) comic books. Having made The 9/11 Commission Report understandable for everyone, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón use their talents to explain the post-9/11 world. Working from news reports drawn from multiple international media, they depict the critical events, decision makers, and consequences of America's "war on terror," and, most important, the context in which the war began, unfolded, and unraveled. The most demanding story they have ever tackled, After 9/11 captures the simultaneous events, geographic complexity, numerous participants, and a vast array of economic, statistical, and quantitative information - compellingly told through the sequential panel art narrative form unique to graphic books. Proving yet again that graphic novels best meet the challenge of giving the most information with the least amount of ink, Jacobson and Colón answer with clarity and unforgettable imagery the question: How the hell did we end up where we are? Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 150 pages, full color. Cover price $16.95. Customer Testimonials Our customers have some nice things to say about us: Customer Testimonials Mailing List Join our Mailing List for news and sales. We’ve been selling comics since 1961 (our first sale: Fantastic Four #1 at $0.25, see one of our first ads) and on the web since 1996. Copyright © 1996 - 2021 Lone Star Comics Inc. Character images copyright © their respective owners. WIT WAR. COMICS/BOOKS: John Reviews “After 9/11: America’s War on Terror (2001- )” by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon. The time for remembrance of 9/11 in 2008 has come and gone once again, and unfortunately I was unable to fit all of my 9/11-related book reviews into the week following the anniversary of the WTC/Pentagon/United 93 tragedies. Perhaps it is appropriate, then, that I am reviewing Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon’s After 9/11: America’s War on Terror (2001- ) at a later date than the rest. This work of graphic journalism begins where their previous work, The 9/11 Commission Report: A Graphic Adaptation left off and covers the Global War on Terror from September 11, 2001 until June 6, 2008 (when the book went to press.) There is only one way to describe the impression I was left with after reading After 9/11 , and that is a mixture of shocked and disappointed. Don’t take the wrong idea from this reaction, though. Jacobson and Colon have done an admirable job of collecting some of the most relevant historical facts from the past seven years and presenting them in a straightforward, non-partisan manner. The quality of the physical product is as high as that of their previous work, if not higher. It is the subject matter itself that has given me such a profound sense of shame, frustration, despair and disappointment. Jacobson and Colon pull no punches, and to read the sequence of events chronologically from 2001 until this year acts as a grim reminder of the mistakes made by many different responsible parties. The most important point of After 9/11 , at least in terms of emphasis within the book, is the examination of Iraq’s role in the War on Terror prior to our invasion in 2003. Jacobson and Colon report not only the official press releases from the White House between 9/11/01 and the start of Operation: Shock and Awe, but also the reports that contradicted the President’s decision. Furthermore, they include the many refutations of the Bush Administration’s already questionable evidence, highlighting reports that there was no recognizable connection between Saddam’s Iraqi forces and Al Queda. When shown side-by-side with the Bush Administration’s affirmations that the war was categorically necessary and that our country is safer because of it, the evidence is really quite damning. Surprisingly enough, the early section of the book that deals with America’s immediate reaction to 9/11/01 and military action in Afghanistan paints the picture of a nation that is gaining control of a dangerous situation and taking measured action to confront one known threat to its people. It’s a shame that the situation deteriorates once Iraq is brought up by the Presidential Administration. Unfortunately, as was the case with The 9/11 Commission Report: A Graphic Adaptation , Jacobson and Colon fail to make effective use of sequential art as a medium of expression. Too often After 9/11 feels like a picture book instead of a comic book, with large text captions set alongside tangentially-related drawn replications of press photos. These illustrations can be effective, such as the many panels showing the aftermath of car bombings in Iraq and Afghanistan, but ultimately it fails to even measure up to its predecessor, much less surpass it. I must warn you, dear potential reader, that when it comes to enjoyment of After 9/11 your mileage may vary depending upon your personal perspective on the Iraq war. While it presents the facts in a manner that is fair to both parties, there are subtle elements of anti-war bias (ranging from contextual placement of quotes to particular choices of photos to illustrate.) Nevertheless, I sympathized with former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and with several high-ranking military officials after reading this book. Our deployed troops are in the midst of terrible danger every day, attempting to enforce stability in a region that wants to be anything but stable. Their very presence is keeping the nation from falling into civil war, yet that same presence is provoking terrible acts of violence and hindering the ability of the central Iraqi government to act on its own. Yet our current administration will not waver, will not even acknowledge the idea that the supremely challenging situation we’re in may require something more than “add more troops” to reach a satisfactory resolution. But this is getting into political rant territory, so I’ll save that line of thought for another day. Suffice it to say that After 9/11 is an important book, one that should be read by those who are interested in (but perhaps not completely informed on) America’s Global War on Terror. Its importance is worth special mention now, since the outcome this year’s presidential election could (or could not) signal a drastic change of tactics on both major fronts. It may also act as a “gateway” book, inspiring readers to inform themselves to a greater extent regarding the most important international issue facing America today. After 9/11: the graphic adaptation. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux has give us permission to post the following excerpts from After 9/11: America’s War on Terror (2001- ), by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón. A self-described “work of graphic journalism” by the same folks who put together the visual adaptation of the 9/11 report, the book is a very cool way . Farrar, Straus, and Giroux has give us permission to post the following excerpts from After 9/11: America’s War on Terror (2001- ) , by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón. A self-described “work of graphic journalism” by the same folks who put together the visual adaptation of the 9/11 report, the book is a very cool way to look at what’s happened over the past seven years. Below is a vignette from the book, which shows the Bush administration shifting its focus from Afghanistan to Iraq: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux has give us permission to post the following excerpts from After 9/11: America’s War on Terror (2001- ) , by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón. A self-described “work of graphic journalism” by the same folks who put together the visual adaptation of the 9/11 report, the book is a very cool way to look at what’s happened over the past seven years. Below is a vignette from the book, which shows the Bush administration shifting its focus from Afghanistan to Iraq: Cookie Consent and Choices. 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A number of our 17 security agencies (aka as the secret police) are enjoying a rare moment of approval as they actually support the conclusion that the Russians interfered in the 2016 presidential election. However, before you start to view the CIA and NSA as benign, warm and cuddly entities consider the overlooked report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (always a troubling word) released a few years ago on the popular subject, torture. “Meticulously formatted, this is a highly readable edition of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of Central Intelligence Agency interrogation and detention programs launched in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Based on over six million internal CIA documents, the report details secret prisons, prisoner deaths, interrogation practices, and cooperation with other foreign and domestic agencies. It also examines charges that the CIA deceived elected officials and governmental overseers about the extent and legality of its operations. Over five years in the making, and withheld from public view since its declassification in April, 2014, this is the full summary report as finally released by the United States government on December 9th, 2014.” The Dark Side: How The War on Terror Became a War on American Ideals” Jane Mayer, who writes about counterterrorism for The New Yorker , offers , “The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals,” reveals more details of about its secret detention program—iIncluding the intragovernmental debates on this efficacy of this program. After September 11, 2001 Vice President Dick Cheney (in an interview with Tim Russert on “Meet the Press.” describes the Bush regime’s rationale—on the continuing threat and US response, “We’ll have to work sort of the dark side if you will. We’ve got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies… if we are going to be successful. That’s the world these folks operate in. And, uh, so it’s going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal basically, to achieve our objectives.” “Since 2001 Jane Mayer has been investigating and reporting on what the dark side really means. For the first time, she pieces together the full story of how Cheney, and a handful of extraordinarily powerful, but almost unknown lawyers including his Chief of Staff David Addington, took command of the war on terrorism. They seized on the mood of national fear to institute a top secret, covert program that twisted or ignored 221 years of constitutional history. She chronicles the behind-the-scenes meetings in the White House, Justice Department and CIA, and shows how the decisions taken behind closed doors in Washington spiraled out around the world, often with unintended consequences, violated the Constitution…” Jane Mayer introduces this iteration of the Torture Report. “The more who learn the truth the better off the country will be because there is no better safeguard against the revival of torture than a well- informed public.” On December 9, 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a report that strongly condemned the CIA for its secret and brutal use of torture in the treatment of prisoners captured in the “war on terror” during the George W. Bush administration. This deeply researched and fully documented investigation highlighted both how ineffective the program was as well as the lengths to which the CIA had gone to conceal it. In The Torture Report , Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón use their graphic-storytelling abilities to make the torture report accessible, Their adaptation adds to the original Senate report. There are brief chapters on how the CIA, Congress and the Justice Department responded to the committee’s report and how the media represented the program while it was classified. Explaining the significance and possible aftermath of the CIA program are an introduction by Jane Mayer and an afterword by Scott Horton. Horton points out, “The experience of Latin America is instructive. “Practices like those used by the CIA were hidden, covered with national security classifications, and amnestied in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, among other nations. It took a full generation — thirty years — before a formal process of accountability began to take hold and octogenarian intelligence officers were dragged before courts and sent to prison.” Comments 2 Comments Categories Uncategorized. Books, Books and more Books… Let me reiterate something I have noted in the past—this, to justify my resorting to the creation and promulgation of a list— which I have also said before, is the main trick of lazy journalists. Oh yeah, if you are familiar either with European literary journals or the late lamented Wisława Szymborska’s splendid little tome Non-REquired Reading you are aware that those journals list books that they receive— a number usually far greater than can be reviewed (or that fussy critics would deign to comment on). Seems like a useful thing to list, right? Since I am exactly in that position I am pleased to occasionally publish an idiosyncratic and arbitrary enumeration of recently received books such as the one that follows.The arbitrary part of this public service ia the links that attach to some of the book noted. Some because i have spoken to the author—some because I have previously commented on something to do with said tome.And some links because, well, it’s the right thing to do. David Hockney: The Biography by Christopher Simon Sykes (Doubleday) Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World by Jay Nordlinger (Encounter Books) The Short American Century: A Postmortem by Andrew Bacevich(Editor) (Harvard University Press) The Recipe Project: A Delectable Extravaganza of Food and Music by Leigh Newman (Black Balloon Publishing) Everything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson byKevin Avery, Nick Tosches (Foreword) (Fantagraphics) The Life of Charles Dickens: The Illustrated Edition [Abridged] by John Forster, Dr. Holly Furneaux PhD, Jane Smiley (Foreword) (Sterling Signature) Government Issue: Comics for the People, 1940s-2000s by Richard Graham , Sid Jacobson (Foreword)(Abrams ComicArts) How the Dog Became the Dog: From Wolves to Our Best Friends by Mark Derr (Overlook) A People’s Guide to Los Angeles by Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough , Wendy Cheng (University of California Press) Herbert Eugene Bolton: Historian of the American Borderlands by Albert L. Hurtado (University of California Press ) No One is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel (Riverhead) Jewish Art: A Modern History by Samantha Baskind, Larry Silver(Reaktion Books) Richard Benson: North South East West by Peter Galassi,Richard Benson(Author Photographer)(The Museum of Modern Art, New York) Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives by Elizabeth Benedict (State University Press of New York) Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series by Sarah Bancroft(The Museum of Modern Art, New York) Cindy Sherman by Eva Respini (Author), Johanna Burton (Author), Cindy Sherman (Photographer), John Waters (Contributor)(The Museum of Modern Art, New York) Darwin’s Devices: What Evolving Robots Can Teach Us About the History of Life and the Future of Technology by John Long (Basic Books) The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard by Joe Brainard, Ron Padgett (Editor), Paul Auster (Foreword)(Library of America) The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table by Tracie McMillan (Scribner) What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld (Author), Ben Boos (Illustrator), A.G. Ford (Illustrator) (Candlewick) Walter De Maria: Trilogies by Josef Helfenstein (Editor), Clare Elliott (Contributor)(Yale University Press) Graphic Design: A New History , second edition by Stephen J. Eskilson (Yale University Press) The Hammer Vault by Marcus Hearn (Titan Books) Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008 by John Leonard, E. L. Doctorow (Introduction) (Viking) This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s by Helen Molesworth (Yale University Press) David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s and 50s by David Goodis, Robert Polito (Editor)(Library of America) The Unexpected Guest by Anne Korkeakivi (Little, Brown and Company) Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Underground by Rob Jovanovic(St. Martin’s Press) Herb Ritts: L.A. Style by Paul Martineau (Author), James Crump (Contributor) (J. Paul Getty Museum) Grantland Issue 2 by Bill Simmons (Editor), Dan Fierman (Editor) (McSweeney’s) David Shrigley: Brain Activity by Cliff Lauson , Martin Herbert, Jonathan Monk, David Shrigley, Dave Eggers (Contributor) (Hayward Publishing) Jeff, One Lonely Guy by Jeff Ragsdale, David Shields, Michael Logan (Amazon Publishing) Strange Flesh: A Novel by Michael Olson (Simon & Schuster) The Middle Ages by (Penguin) These Dreams of You by Steve Erickson (Europa Editions) The Journal of Henry David Thoreau 1837-1861 by Henry David Thoreau, Damion Searls (Editor), John Stilgoe (Preface) (New York Review Books Classics) Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives by John Sutherland (Yale University Press. Perla by Carolina De Robertis(Knopf) Atget by John Szarkowski, Eugène Atget (Photographer) (The Museum of Modern Art, New York) The 50 Funniest American Writers*: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion by Andy Borowitz ( Library of America) Nixon’s Court: His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism and Its Political Consequences by Kevin J. McMahon (University Of Chicago Press) Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway (Knopf) The Sugar Frosted Nutsack: A Novel by ( Little, Brown and Company) The Anatomy of Harpo Marx by Wayne Koestenbaum(University of California Press) Timebomb:A Thriller by Gerald Seymour (Overlook) Any Day Now: A Novel by Terry Bisson (Overlook) Three Science Fiction Novellas: From Prehistory to the End of Mankind by J.-H. Rosny, Daniele Chatelain (Translator, Contributor), George Slusser (Translator, Contributor) (Wesleyan Early Classics of Science Fiction) Extra Innings: More Baseball Between the Numbers from the Team at Baseball Prospectus by Baseball Prospectus The, Steven Goldman (Editor) (Basic Books) A People’s History of Baseball by Mitchell Nathanson (University of Illinois Press) MeMyselfandI: Photo Portraits of Picasso by Pierre Daix, Friederike Mayröcker, Katherine Slusher, Kerstin Stremmel (Editor) (Hatje Cantz) Currently reading The Wet Engine by Brian Doyle (Oregon State University Press)