Do you know where your kid's mind is right now?

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See "What They Love" (Between the Lines), May/June 2003, p. 28, and "What a Nation Values" (Note From a Worldwatcher), Sep/Oct 2004, p. 3

In our annotated look at a website ad for the JC Penney toy "Forward Command Post," which featured an American soldier standing guard over a wrecked (presumably Iraqi) house, we noted a trend not only toward increasing militarization of the toys being marketed in the United States, but also toward the unabashed...