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"War is not about victory or defeat. It is about the total failure of human spirit," Robert Fisk, The Independent's Middle East correspondent, told the debate. "When you see the things I see, you would never support war ever again."
I'm reading Fisk's new book, The Great War for Civilisation, The Conquest of the Middle East. 250 pages into this 1,000 tome, I can say that Fisk's credibility on this topic cannot be assailed. He has been there for 19 years, covering everything from the Iran hostage crisis to the US invasion, at enormous risk to his life. He really helps you understand the background dealings we never (or rarely) learn of, e.g,. Israel was selling Iran arms during the Iraq/Iran war. Business goes on no matter what wars the gov'ts are throwing their people into.
WHOLE ARTICLE:
http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article340618.ece
SIRATYST (Stuff I Read and Thought You Should Too) -- “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” (Calgacus, as quoted by Tacitus, Agricola 30-31)"
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