The Age of the Warrior: Selected Writings
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Robert Fisk. The Age of the Warrior: Selected Writings
THE AGE OF. THE WARRIOR
CONTENTS
PREFACE
A firestorm coming
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
Flirting with the enemy
‘Thank you, Mr Clinton, for the kind words’
Brace yourself for Part Two of the War for Civilisation
The pit of desperation
The lies leaders tell when they want to go to war
‘You are not welcome’
Be very afraid: Bush Productions is preparing to go into action
‘Our guys may kick them around a little…’
The wind from the East
Publish and be damned? Or stay silent?
So let me denounce genocide from the dock
You’re talking nonsense, Mr Ambassador
Armenia’s 1,500,001st genocide victim
Sneaking a book out in silence
‘A conflict of interest’
Bravery, tears and broken dreams
A holocaust denier in the White House
Words, words, words…
Hack blasts local rags
We should have listened to Bin Laden
The jargon disease
Poisonous academics and their claptrap of exclusion
Soft words – hard questions
The pen, the telex, the phone and the despised e-mail
The forgotten art of handwriting
‘Believe it or not!’
Murder is murder is murder…
Ah, Mary, you poor diddums
‘A very edgy situation’
‘Abu Henry’: what diplomats can get up to
A lesson from the Holocaust
Cinema begins to mirror the world
Applause from the Muslims of Beirut
Saladin’s eyes
My challenge for Steven Spielberg
Da Vinci shit
We’ve all been veiled from the truth
When art is incapable of matching life
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one
Take a beautiful woman to the cinema
A river through time
The greatest crisis since the last greatest crisis
A long and honourable tradition of smearing the dead
Tricky stuff, evil
‘Middle East hope!’ – ‘Europe in crisis!’
A poet on the run in Fortress Europe
When I was a child… I understood as a child
Another of Arthur’s damned farthings
First mate Edward Fisk
‘Come on, Sutton!’
Cold war nights
‘All this talk of special trains…’
Fear of flying
The old mandates
God damn that democracy
Gold-plated taps
The man who will never apologise
The ‘lady’ in seat 1K
Whatever you do, don’t mention the war
‘The best defender on earth of Lebanon’s sovereignty’
Alphonse Bechir’s spectacles
The cat who ate missile wire for breakfast
The torturer who lived near the theatre
The temple of truth
We are all Rifaats now
The ministry of fear
‘We have all made our wills’
‘Duty unto death’ and the United Nations
The cult of cruelty
The age of the warrior
Torture’s out – abuse is in
‘The truth, the truth!’
Crusaders of the ‘Green Zone’
Paradise in Hell
‘Bush is a revelatory at bedtime’
The worse it gets, the bigger the lies
Let’s have more martyrs!
The flying carpet
The show must go on
‘He was killed by the enemy’ – but all is well in Iraq
We have lost our faith and they have not
God and the devil
The childishness of civilisations
Look in the mirror
Smashing history
So now it’s ‘brown-skinned’
The ‘faith’ question
Hatred on a map
‘If you bomb our cities, we will bomb yours’
The lies of racists
Dreamology
‘A thing invulnerable’
What the Romans would have thought of Iraq
In memoriam
Read Lawrence of Arabia
A peek into the Fascist era
Who now cries for the dead of Waterloo?
Witnesses to genocide: a dark tale from Switzerland
‘You can tell a soldier to burn a village…’
Should journalists testify at war crimes trials?
Where are the great men of today?
America, America
Free speech
It’s a draw!
Fear and loathing on an American campus
How Muslim middle America made me feel safer
Will the media boys and girls catch up?
Brazil, America and the Seven Pillars of Wisdom
From Cairo to Valdosta
Trying to get into America
Unanswered questions
Is the problem weather? Or is it war?
Fear climate change, not our enemies
Just Who creates reality?
A letter from Mrs Irvine
Who killed Benazir?
The strange case of Gunner Wills
The last enemy
In the Colosseum, thoughts turn to death
Dead heroes and living memories
The ship that stands upright at the bottom of the sea
‘Thanks, Bruce’
Those who went before us
Farewell, Ane-Karine
They told Andrea that Chris had not suffered
POSTSCRIPT
A street named Pétain and the woman he sent to Auschwitz
‘I am the girl of Irène Némirovsky’
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Also by Robert Fisk
Copyright
About the Publisher
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1 A firestorm coming
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‘We have all made our wills’
‘Duty unto death’ and the United Nations
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