Recs please?---
“So because of this – and these bloodless sandpits with ex-generals pontificating – it becomes a game; you start propagating this idea that war is primarily about victory or defeat – when in fact, it’s about death, and the infliction of massive pain.
“I was in Iraq in 1991, when the British and Americans had been bombing one of the highways. There were women and children dead and in bits, and all these dogs came out of the desert and started eating them.
“If you saw what I saw you’d never ever think of supporting war of any kind against anyone again. But of course, the politicians – our leaders – are very happy that these pictures are not shown, because they make war more attractive, less painful.”
Do the British public never get to see this more realistic picture of war? “If an Iraqi soldier is obliging enough to die by the side of the road in a romantic pose, and you can get him against the skyline without any boiled flesh – ‘the price of war: an Iraqi soldier lies dead,’ you know the sort of caption by now – you can do that.”
http://www.ukwatch.net/article/interview_with_robert_fisk