NY Times writer admits war addiction
Christopher Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and New York Times reporter, said that war is “addicting” during his lecture, “Is There Such a Thing as a Just War?” in the O’Hare lecture hall on Wednesday, March 24.
Hedges said that the very nature of war can act like a narcotic and thus become an addiction, which is what made him return to Iraq after being captured during the Gulf War and seeing fellow journalists die.