Interview with War Correspondent Kevin Sites
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on 29 October, 2007
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| When Kevin Sites stopped by IRC’s New York office on Thursday to read from his new book, “In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars,” he also took time out to answer a few questions.
We spoke about the Hot Zone project, his encounters with IRC staff in the field, some of the conflicts on his “watch list,” and what he’s working on now. Kevin also shared the lesson he learned from the project: that “war defines itself as combat … but is really collateral damage.” He said, “you hear so often that politicians and generals will say, well, in any war, there’s going to be some collateral damage. And it’s a huge lie. In any war, it’s almost all about collateral damage. It’s about the destruction of civil life, going on for generations. The combat, as any soldier will tell you, is a very small part…” Interview with Kevin Sites Listen > |
30 October, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Thank you for the most honest, really incisive examination of what journalists do in the course of their work. Thank you, Mr. Sites for your honesty and your work.