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Arguments, Strife, and Polemics: More on the Killing of Mazen Dana

It's never been my intention to make this column into a general forum, and I've made a conscientious effort to keep politics and polemics out of it. Like many people, I have lots of opinions and views about a lot of things, and I enjoy expressing them. But I understand that people read this column — indeed, they read most of what I write— because of my thoughts on the subject of photography, so I do my best to stick to that.
Whenever my personal beliefs on matters non-photographic leak into the column, however, I get mail. This past week, the mail was the worst it's ever been in this regard. I think it's pretty obvious that many of us are pretty upset about the situation in Iraq, which we each express in varied and sometimes complicated ways; for instance, I got negative mail from people to the left of me who felt I had timidly "hidden" my views and didn't state my disapproval strongly enough, as...

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