Sebastian Junger on 'War' and 'Restrepo' in Afghanistan
For decades, author Sebastian Junger has been covering wars all over the world, but he never imagined that his book, War, and movie, Restrepo, on Afghanistan would become lightning rods for the left and right.
The first one I ever saw was in a hayfield above a town called Suha Reka. It was right after NATO had finished bombing Serb forces in Kosovo in 1999, and I was driving through the ruined towns writing about the war crimes that had triggered the bombardment.
