![]() ![]() If I was to summarize What We Talk About When We Talk About War, I would say it shows how we narrated ourselves into conflict and through conflict and out of it. My first book, This is My Country, What’s Yours?-and this one-are both interested in the power of story. I was already, I knew, very disturbed by the changes that were being wrought in Canada’s sense of itself. The conversation basically suggested that if we had pulled out of Afghanistan then, in what was a very tough year of fighting, that Master Corporal Paul Franklin had been wounded for nothing. ![]() He compared Afghanistan to the Second World War, suggesting basically that it was a “just” war. It was a very spirited conversation and he was a decent fellow. I was sitting in my kitchen listening to Shelagh Rogers talk to Master Corporal Paul Franklin about the IED explosion that killed diplomat Glyn Berry in 2006. ![]() What prompted you to write What We Talk About When We Talk About War? On November 5, 2012, Richler will join Jack Granatstein in Vancouver for a debate about whether or not Canada is a “warrior nation.” This magazine news columns editor andrea bennett interviewed Richler in late September 2012. ![]() Noah Richler is the author of What We Talk About When We Talk About War (Goose Lane, 2012), a Governor-General’s Award non-fiction finalist. ![]()
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