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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
Okay, folks, gotta run! Thanks!
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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
So-so.
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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
Good terps come with references.
I do despair, quite often. I am not opposed to a just war. I’m opposed to stupid wars fought out of fear or for a lack of a more creative approach to a problem. We tend to fight the latter.
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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
Next big thing is Mexico, this fall. Taking a vacation to China this summer.
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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
Oh yes! That happens sometimes. You need to hire reputable terps.
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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
@Demi: With all due respect, if you don’t believe it’s important to understand war, why are you participating in a chat about understanding war? I’m honestly confused.
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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
Interpreters, mostly.
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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
Interpreters are vital, and can be had for the right price or with the right contacts.
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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
It’s the waiting, more than anything, that makes war boring. Even at Restrepo, there were many, many days when nothing happened and everyone just sat around, bored out of their minds.
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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
Yes, but as a freelancer with small budget, I can’t compete with Al Jazeera and CNN. I need long-term “neglected” conflicts or small ones that fly under the radar.
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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
To write about cats.
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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
French and English, working on Mandarin (slowly).
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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
Any voter who cannot be bothered to pay adequate attention to the wars they are paying for should never vote for any politician who supports any war at all. In other words, if one is genuinely too busy to think about war and understand it, one should be a firm pacifist.
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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
Ha! Good point.
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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
War is not so much merely boring as it is disappointing. It tempts you with profound knowledge of humanity and the world, but results mostly in confusion, sadness, ugliness and pain.
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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
Depends on the warzone. Each has its own recipe. The short of it is: get cash, buy plane ticket, arrive, walk around, ask questions, try to move toward the violence, write stories, survive, come home.
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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
“Oops.”
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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
Opps, I meant @Demi.
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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
Oh, war as an idea is not boring — far from it. But the practice of reporting on war can be very, very tedious. Even maddeningly so.
Moreover, “War Is Boring” is an ironic title, sort of.
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David Axe commented on the blog post FDL Movie Night: Restrepo
@Lisa: And I do not claim to know “everything,” but I have spent many months in combat in Afghanistan as a reporter, so that’s a subject I do understand very well.
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