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Title: War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
by Chris Hedges
ISBN: 1-4000-3463-9
Publisher: Anchor
Pub. Date: 10 June, 2003
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $12.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (40 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: Both hawks and doves beware: this book will change you
Comment: This is powerful stuff. Whether you think yourself a hawk or a dove, you'll never feel the same about the fanfare of war. Forget about glory, heros, and pulse-pumping excitement, Chris Hedges will extinguish those cheap thrills forever. A seasoned war correspondent, Chris Hedges knows of what he writes. He's no pacifist and severely chids the Clinton administration's slow response in the Balkans. But he lets no warmongers off free. In strong, poetic language, Hedges forces the reader to face the costs and subterfuges of war: hyperbolic nation myths, manufactured heros, "demon" enemies. Violence intoxicates, leaving combatants spent, disgusted, and scarred. Mass amnesia and shameless revisionism allow each generation to re-embrace war ignorant of the deeds of their predecessors. I can't recommend this book strongly enough.

Rating: 2
Summary: Hypocrisy Incarnate
Comment: Having made a good living covering--and ENJOYING ("I was an addict")--war for several decades, Hedges now chooses to preach to us as a "pacifist." In fact, he has become an apologist for the terrorists who seek to destroy our society. We're asked to understand the "rage" of the WTC bombers. Indeed, when it comes to blaming the victim, Hedges has no peer. Hitler too was motivated by "rage." Did we fail to understand him?

Well written but resolutely wrong-headed. Hedges simply cannot bring himself to oppose evil.

Rating: 5
Summary: Powerful, disturbing, important.
Comment: This is a must read, especially in these terrible times. I read this in nearly one sitting - couldn't put it down, even as disturbing and usettling as it was. Memo to Bush/Cheney crowd: Read this book!

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