Continuing on with Dexer Filkin's The Forever War, the author paints a very different picture of some of the soldiers fighting in Iraq. He interviews an injured Talib fighter who is on his deathbed. The story he tells isn't one of a mad man crying for the fall of America and the rise of Islam, the death of infidels, and whatever other extremist messages the media likes to shove done our throats pretending they are hard facts. No, this particular interview was with a man who regretted his decision to join the Taliban. He only wanted to go home.
This book is perhaps the most unbiased 'reports' of the War on Terror that I've read or listened to in a long time. It is a very nice change of pace, and I look forward to reading more.
No comments:
Post a Comment