Farnaz Fassihi - Farnaz Fassihi is the deputy bureau chief of Middle East and Africa for The Wall Street Journal and the author of Waiting for An Ordinary Day.
This book is a memoir of her four years covering the Iraq war and witnessing the unraveling of life for Iraqi citizens.
Dexter Filkins - Dexter Filkins, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, has worked in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and, from 2003 to 2006, in Iraq. He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist and has received a George Polk Award and two Overseas Press Club awards. In 2007–2008 he was a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Two pre-eminent war correspondents offer a visceral understanding of America's overseas involvement -- from the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan to the heat of the battle in Iraq, from Marine battalions in Ramadi to ordinary Iraqis whose voices have remained eerily silent- ALOUD at the Los Angeles Public Library
Unbeleivable how two good professionals can talk so superficially about such a dramatic moment as the invasion of a whole nation, no matter wat the reasons are. No one in his or her sane mind can act sanely when your fragile world or what is left from it is destroyed in a blink!!!!
it is a farce that educated peoples can be so shallow about such a destructive and aggressive force that has impose it's will upon peoples by death death and nothing but death! there is no political excuse and no human reasoning to have massacre peoples not of your land or spirit!.