Judging from this book review of Michael Hastings' “I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story” (276pp, Scribner, $24), it's best that the love lives of war correspondents are left unwritten.What She Did For LoveBy George Packer For The New York TimesThis first book by a Newsweek correspondent in Baghdad is really two books. One is a young war reporter’s memoir of the most horrific period of violence in Iraq, from 2005 to 2007, and of his discovery that he could live up to the extreme demands of his chosen profession. The other is an account of his up-and-down relationship with a lovely and idealistic young woman who followed him to Baghdad and whose life, along with the lives of three bodyguards, ended in a fusillade of bullets and grenades when her convoy was ambushed by Sunni e
~Snooper~Andrew C McCarthy on Willful Blindness: A Memoir of The Jihad, an interview at National Review Online.A powerful interview indeed and supports everything I have been writing and talking about for years.There are none so blind as the man that will not see. Lopez: What's the most devastating lesson from 15 years ago we still haven't learned? McCarthy: That the primary cause of Islamic terrorism is Muslim doctrine, and that we are not fighting a tiny, rag-tag collection of fringe lunatics who have somehow "hijacked" the "true Islam."Imagine that.
March 16, 2008Dear Diary. We've got 'em on the run. HQ has radioed in the co-ordinates of the next bombing. Using jingoistic military terms just gets me totally pumped, I just can't stop myself (I am sooo the right one to be the next commander in chief).News from the front is that the Obama forces appear to be in a state of disarray as the Wright cluster bombs continue to go off. Bill's in the other room watching Hannity and that other guy with the sound muted, in his underwear, with a cigar (ughhh), cranking the theme to Apocalypse Now while Fox News plays that U.S.of KKK clip over and over again.He says that this Wright thing is just the kind of thing we can milk from now until we are able to convince all the super-delegates that Obama is the kind of Muslim no American would ever v
It's October 1943 and World War II is raging. Americans are having to tighten their belts like never before. How does a homemaker make the most of her rations?Equitable Gas hoped to make it a little easier and more efficient with this booklet I found at the Goodwill in Monroeville. And it's amazing how comprehensive it is! From how to make appliances last and how to make meat go further to low flame, minimum water cooking techniques, designed to "save minerals, vitamins, flavor." Just LOOK at all this poor housewife has to consider in trying to keep her family on track!Also, how often do we see an employee of our gas companies giving us helpful advice about our household tasks these days? Mine just put bright yellow notices on my front door complaining I'm not at home to let them in to re
Wartime New York City, was, however, to be a far more carefree place than London or Paris, as commentators from areas closer to the war effort neglected no opportunity to show. To be sure, there was for a time a dim-out, ordered not so much through fear of bombs as because the glow of the city's lights silhouetted shipping for enemy U-boats lurking out at sea. In this halfway measure, the streets were still lighted, a British visitor of 1942 reported; but the "glaring advertisements" which formerly kept Broadway "in perpetual light" were now extinguished, and "all windows above the 10th floor . . . screened." New Yorkers gained some sense of participation in the struggle as air-raid precautions, inaugurated six months before Pearl Harbor, were "practiced and more or less perfected," sirens were tested, and wardens and plane spotters began to stand watch on tall buildings and rural hilltops. Women took over tasks formerly performed by men--driving cabs, operating elevators, and serving
Japanese authorities abducted and coerced women into sexual slavery during World War II in the occupied Dutch East Indies, according to Netherlands government documents made available Friday by a Japanese journalist based in Berlin. The evidence contradicts Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recent remarks disputing such wartime coercion by the Japanese military, which have stirred international controversy and drawn fire particularly from South Korea and China.In one of the previously undisclosed documents obtained by journalist Taichiro Kajimura, who met Japanese reporters in Berlin, a 27-year-old Dutch woman was quoted as testifying that she had her clothes ripped off by Japanese military police and was taken to a brothel where she was forced to sell sex despite having tried to resist.
Introducing a friend to peace; poet & author, Helen Losse of Windows Toward the World.I get my news from the web now,sports from television,unless they too show us the war, which I amsure not to watch. Somehow, seeingpictures without the sound keeps me calmer,except the one in the Washington Post.The Iraqi child there—reportedly injured bygun fire—was comforted by a woman,while she held him—face still bleeding—in motherly arms.After seeing that, I penned some stinging words.I actually wrote, “Can’t we ALL become peoplewho do not shoot each other’s children?”I pick up the sticks, left by a storm,weeks ago now, when a fury of ice invaded this town.There is unsightly brush. And it’s still on my lawn. So,should a poet impale her muse,while the battle rages on, so that even brave soldiersretain their right to die? You tell me,having heard my wartime agenda.
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