Blogging From the Front and War Will Never Be the Same
Iraq is a war being blogged at the same time it’s being fought. Lebanon the same. There’s an active blogosphere among Israelis and Palestinians and one can but wonder if the traditional hatreds and prejudices can hold out against information.
Iraq is a war being blogged at the same time it’s being fought. Lebanon the same. There’s an active blogosphere among Israelis and Palestinians and one can but wonder if the traditional hatreds and prejudices can hold out against information.
I remember walking through Sarajevo, shortly after the war and before the country was really over the trauma (if that ever truly happens). Much destruction, bullet-pocked buildings were the norm, whole villages destroyed and large areas yellow-taped off as still mined and dangerous.
But what struck me the most, along with how rapidly life returned to the streets, were the graveyards. Not cemeteries, but public spaces. Front yards, former parks, vacant lots and schoolyards—anywhere bodies could be buried—not leg…