Episode 48 - Harry Parker: Part 3

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?