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Other correspondents have taken a more straightforward approach. Listen to this, from Jack Thompson, just back from a week in Iraq in 1984, when Saddam Hussein's regime was fighting neighbouring Iran.
This is the grimmest of wars. It's also produced a callousness among the troops and even the journalists, which permits an Iraqi sergeant to toss his burnt-out cigarette end onto the blackening face of a dead Iranian soldier, whose corpse floats on its back in the shallow waters of the swamps near the village of Al-Bayda and permits me to see him do it and report it, just one more dead body among so many. The Iraqis are proud of what they've achieved. The blunting of what seems to have been a desperate use of human wave tactics by the Khomeini regime in Teheran and that regime's apparent humiliation. Humiliation shown at its most pathetic in the features of a group of Iranian teenagers captured during the fighting for the marshlands and paraded before the news media in Baghdad this week. If there is a worst aspect of this conflict, it is the flagrant exploitation of children by both sides. By the Iranians who send them into battle at the age of 13, 14 or 15. One Iranian boy captured at the front was said to be no older than nine, and by the Iraqis who haul them before the cameras. | 
发表于 2016-10-31 17:38:21