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War is bad. Here's why: Åsne Seierstad’s first assignment as a journalist was as Moscow correspondent for a Norwegian newspaper. What she lacked in writing experience, she made up for in her fluent Russian and fearlessness. By stealth, as well as offWar is bad. Here's why: Åsne Seierstad’s first assignment as a journalist was as Moscow correspondent for a Norwegian newspaper. What she lacked in writing experience, she made up for in her fluent Russian and fearlessness. By stealth, as well as official invitation, she spent over a decade reporting from Chechnya. Her meetings with the Chechen president, whose image in tandem with his father, (the murdered ex-president) is ubiquitious, would be hilarious were the leaders not so thuggish and brutal. The government co-opts fundamentalist Islam with its own conservative form of the religion as interpreted on a television program by the President’s uncle. It is with the average Chechen, though, that Seierstad brings clarity to a situation almost nobody outside Chechnya knows about. Kidnappings, disappearances, informers are part of daily life. Seierstad could use a few lessons about metaphor and pathos, but as investigative journalism, this is a good one. By the way, support your local independent bookstore. If you buy this through amazon.com you're a fool and I won't be your friend....more
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