This book is by a reporter who has spent the last thirty years in middle east.
The author, Robert Fisk, is inspired to his profession by a movie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, called a “Foreign Correspondent.”
In the movie the reporter played by Joel McCrea witnesses an assignation, chases spies, wins the lady and scoops the world. Fisk first saw this movie when he was twelve.
Now he writes even the term ‘war correspondent’
“smells a bit, reeks of false romanticism; it has too much of the whiff of Victorian reporters who would view the battles from hilltops in the company of ladies, immune to suffering, only occasionally glancing towards the distant pop-pop of canon fire.”
He also writes of cringing any time some one psycho babbles about ‘trauma.’
He rightly points out, very few of the people who were actually victimized by the war will receive therapy.
How can any one “come to terms” with the depths of human depravity and the insanity of mass murder?
The idea of taking someone else's life is abhorrent and and war, is a failure, as Fisk comments, of the human spirit.
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