Okay. Good morning everybody, im particularly excited to introduce this event. When we first began discussing the programming, this is the first panel that we thought of and weve been looking forward to it ever since. People have been writing about warfare ever since we had the book. And all our panelists write brilliantly on the topic but each brings a very different perspective. We have a slight change to our published program in their moderator will be sky montgomery from the Camden Institute of the university of missouri. Im grateful to her for stepping in on short notice so join me in welcoming sky, ishmael beah, Gregory Fontenot, Candice Millard and Whitney Terrell. [applause] thank you very much for that warm introduction. As long as human beings have been waging war, they been selling bad stories. Whether its to celebrate the heroic or merely make sense out of the chaos of combat, we can conclude something of the universality of war to the Human Experience from the fact that pl
Haiti though it never was a war was fascinating series of coup detats and revolutions and so on. And then the iraq war which itself was kind of several different wars, so i dont know what that number would be, three, four. Depending what you consider wars and whatnot. And another question, what is your attitude about war . Mark well, from my last book which was called stripping bear the body, i based that title on a quotation by a haitian politician, fascinating man, who said Political Violence is like stripping bear the body, the better to remove the clothing to place the stethoscope directly on the skin. Nerd, Political Violence including war is a way, it seems to me to see a society with clarity, to strip away the outside layers and see the various constituents of a society struggling with one another. So ive always found it a fascinating phenomenon. I mean, on the one hand, theres the sheer excitement of it, the adrenaline pumping excitement of following a violent series of events,
Haiti though it never was a war was fascinating series of coup detats and revolutions and so on. And then the iraq war which itself was kind of several different wars, so i dont know what that number would be, three, four. Depending what you consider wars and whatnot. And another question, what is your attitude about war . Mark well, from my last book which was called stripping bear the body, i based that title on a quotation by a haitian politician, fascinating man, who said Political Violence is like stripping bear the body, the better to remove the clothing to place the stethoscope directly on the skin. Nerd, Political Violence including war is a way, it seems to me to see a society with clarity, to strip away the outside layers and see the various constituents of a society struggling with one another. So ive always found it a fascinating phenomenon. I mean, on the one hand, theres the sheer excitement of it, the adrenaline pumping excitement of following a violent series of events,
Haiti though it never was a war was fascinating series of coup detats and revolutions and so on. And then the iraq war which itself was kind of several different wars, so i dont know what that number would be, three, four. Depending what you consider wars and whatnot. And another question, what is your attitude about war . Mark well, from my last book which was called stripping bear the body, i based that title on a quotation by a haitian politician, fascinating man, who said Political Violence is like stripping bear the body, the better to remove the clothing to place the stethoscope directly on the skin. Nerd, Political Violence including war is a way, it seems to me to see a society with clarity, to strip away the outside layers and see the various constituents of a society struggling with one another. So ive always found it a fascinating phenomenon. I mean, on the one hand, theres the sheer excitement of it, the adrenaline pumping excitement of following a violent series of events,