From the Book War is the force that gives us meaning by Chris by Chris Hedges ,

War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning

Chris Hedges has been a war reporter for the past 15 years and during the most recent time for The New York Times where he was a part of team which won Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for a report on global terrorism . Chris Hedges also won AI 's 2002 Global Award for Human Rights Journalism which characterizes him as a talented journalist . The article which won this award was adapted from War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning and we can regard this work

of Chris Hedges as an outstanding description of war 's role in the life of mankind . In this work , Chris Hedges develops the idea about the war being not only a horror in the life of a nation but also a kind of drug , an addictive which makes people want it even though they know it will bring lots of deaths and destruction

Chris Hedges devotes lots of attention to analyzing a war as a myth which people believe in only because they haven 't really seen the terrors of war . The authors emphasizes that it 's impossible for anybody to find out all the truth about war from the mass media because most journalists don 't even come close to fighting : Most reporters sent to cover a war don 't really want to go near the fighting . They do not tell this to their editors and indeed will moan and complain about restrictions . The handful who actually head out into the field have a bitter enmity with the hotel room warriors . But even those who do go out are guilty of distortion- maybe more so . For they not only believe the myth , feed off of the drug , but also embrace the cause . But they believe . We all believe . When you stop believing you stop going to war

If the myth goes away and you see the reality , you realize that war brings only sufferings . Chris Hedges gives an example of one Muslim soldier who had a daughter and who went fighting on the front lines around Sarajevo . It happened so that he killed a 12-year old girl by chance and when he saw her dead , he could never fight anymore because she reminded him about his own daughter . Once a person realizes what real destruction he can bring and what pain he can cause , all the myth about war vanishes into thin air and the person never wants to do that again

Chris Hedges also speaks about war as a crusade which good people organize against all the evil in the world , like the United States declares war against terrorism : We go forward ' President George W Bush assures us , to defend freedom and all that is good and just in the world ' Crusades were also taken in middle ages to protect Christianity . However , it 's impossible to use murders and destructions as means of fighting with evil . God teaches us to answer with kindness for everything...