Volume 54, Number 17 · November 8, 2007
Do They Crave War?
By Neal Ascherson
Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter
by Carolin Emcke
Princeton University Press, 322 pp., $24.95
Another Bloody Love Letter
by Anthony Loyd
London: Headline Review, 303 pp., £16.99
'War kills. That is all it does.' The words come from Michael Walzer's book Just and Unjust Wars, and Carolin Emcke has used them as the epigraph for her first chapter. Maybe she took them out of some context that would modify their meaning. I hope so, because they are not true.
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