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The Age of the Warrior: Selected Writings
Robert Fisk
A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday ‘Independent’.Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind’s war-torn recent history. He is best known for his writing about the Middle East, its wars, dictators and international relations, but these ‘Comment’ articles cover an array of topics, from his soldier grandfather to handwriting to the titanic - and of course President Bush, terrorism and Iraq.
THE AGE OF
THE WARRIOR
SELECTED WRITINGS
ROBERT FISK
CONTENTS
PREFACE
1 A firestorm coming
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war (#u01b31ed8-7FFF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
Flirting with the enemy (#u01b31ed8-8FFF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
‘Thank you, Mr Clinton, for the kind words’ (#u01b31ed8-9FFF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
Brace yourself for Part Two of the War for Civilisation (#u01b31ed8-12FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
The pit of desperation (#u01b31ed8-13FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
The lies leaders tell when they want to go to war (#u01b31ed8-16FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
‘You are not welcome’ (#u01b31ed8-17FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
Be very afraid: Bush Productions is preparing to go into action (#u01b31ed8-18FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
‘Our guys may kick them around a little…’ (#u01b31ed8-19FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
The wind from the East (#u01b31ed8-20FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
2 Publish and be damned? Or stay silent?
So let me denounce genocide from the dock (#u01b31ed8-24FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
You’re talking nonsense, Mr Ambassador (#u01b31ed8-25FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
Armenia’s 1,500,001st genocide victim (#u01b31ed8-26FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
Sneaking a book out in silence (#u01b31ed8-27FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
‘A conflict of interest’ (#u01b31ed8-30FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
Bravery, tears and broken dreams (#u01b31ed8-31FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
A holocaust denier in the White House (#u01b31ed8-32FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
3 Words, words, words…
Hack blasts local rags (#u01b31ed8-36FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
We should have listened to Bin Laden (#u01b31ed8-37FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
The jargon disease (#u01b31ed8-38FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
Poisonous academics and their claptrap of exclusion (#u01b31ed8-39FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
Soft words – hard questions (#u01b31ed8-40FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
The pen, the telex, the phone and the despised e-mail (#u01b31ed8-41FF-11e9-9e03-0cc47a520474)
The forgotten art of handwriting (#litres_trial_promo)
‘Believe it or not!’ (#litres_trial_promo)
Murder is murder is murder… (#litres_trial_promo)
Ah, Mary, you poor diddums (#litres_trial_promo)
‘A very edgy situation’ (#litres_trial_promo)
‘Abu Henry’: what diplomats can get up to (#litres_trial_promo)
A lesson from the Holocaust (#litres_trial_promo)
4 Cinema begins to mirror the world
Applause from the Muslims of Beirut (#litres_trial_promo)
Saladin’s eyes (#litres_trial_promo)
My challenge for Steven Spielberg (#litres_trial_promo)
Da Vinci shit (#litres_trial_promo)
We’ve all been veiled from the truth (#litres_trial_promo)
When art is incapable of matching life (#litres_trial_promo)
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one (#litres_trial_promo)
Take a beautiful woman to the cinema (#litres_trial_promo)
A river through time (#litres_trial_promo)
5 The greatest crisis since the last greatest crisis
A long and honourable tradition of smearing the dead (#litres_trial_promo)
Tricky stuff, evil (#litres_trial_promo)
‘Middle East hope!’ – ‘Europe in crisis!’ (#litres_trial_promo)
A poet on the run in Fortress Europe (#litres_trial_promo)
6 When I was a child… I understood as a child
Another of Arthur’s damned farthings (#litres_trial_promo)
First mate Edward Fisk (#litres_trial_promo)
‘Come on, Sutton!’ (#litres_trial_promo)
Cold war nights (#litres_trial_promo)
‘All this talk of special trains…’ (#litres_trial_promo)
Fear of flying (#litres_trial_promo)
7 The old mandates
God damn that democracy (#litres_trial_promo)
Gold-plated taps (#litres_trial_promo)
The man who will never apologise (#litres_trial_promo)
The ‘lady’ in seat 1K (#litres_trial_promo)
Whatever you do, don’t mention the war (#litres_trial_promo)
‘The best defender on earth of Lebanon’s sovereignty’ (#litres_trial_promo)
Alphonse Bechir’s spectacles (#litres_trial_promo)
The cat who ate missile wire for breakfast (#litres_trial_promo)
The torturer who lived near the theatre (#litres_trial_promo)
The temple of truth (#litres_trial_promo)
We are all Rifaats now (#litres_trial_promo)
The ministry of fear (#litres_trial_promo)
‘We have all made our wills’ (#litres_trial_promo)
‘Duty unto death’ and the United Nations (#litres_trial_promo)
8 The cult of cruelty
The age of the warrior (#litres_trial_promo)
Torture’s out – abuse is in (#litres_trial_promo)
‘The truth, the truth!’ (#litres_trial_promo)
Crusaders of the ‘Green Zone’ (#litres_trial_promo)
Paradise in Hell (#litres_trial_promo)
‘Bush is a revelatory at bedtime’ (#litres_trial_promo)
The worse it gets, the bigger the lies (#litres_trial_promo)
Let’s have more martyrs! (#litres_trial_promo)
The flying carpet (#litres_trial_promo)
The show must go on (#litres_trial_promo)
‘He was killed by the enemy’ – but all is well in Iraq (#litres_trial_promo)
9 We have lost our faith and they have not
God and the devil (#litres_trial_promo)
The childishness of civilisations (#litres_trial_promo)
Look in the mirror (#litres_trial_promo)
Smashing history (#litres_trial_promo)
So now it’s ‘brown-skinned’ (#litres_trial_promo)
The ‘faith’ question (#litres_trial_promo)
Hatred on a map (#litres_trial_promo)
‘If you bomb our cities, we will bomb yours’ (#litres_trial_promo)
The lies of racists (#litres_trial_promo)
