Robert Fisk

The Age of the Warrior: Selected Writings


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       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

      

       8 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

      

       9 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

      

       10 ‘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?

      

       11 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

      

       12 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

      

       13 The last enemy

       In the Colosseum, thoughts turn to death