Harry Parker begins the
third and final part of his conversation with This Writing Life by
considering the emotional effects of his tours in Iraq and
Afghanistan. ----more---- From there we moved onto:
- writing about the war from the
perspective of the occupied and the insurgency - 'All I wanted to do was tell a good
story' - 'There is this idea that laying mines is
a really unfair way to fight wars. I always thought dropping a hellfire
missile from a drone was also unfair.' - futility and waste: 'War is just shitty'
- how much is a life worth: occupiers vs
occupied? - 'You can't just do these things with
military force...' - ISIS, Assad, Iraq: the future of the
world - 'If there are any themes they are
compassion, recovery, but also trying to reframe how we view conflicts' - what next for Harry Parker?
