[lbo-talk] War Nerd's very contrarian position on Laurent

[James Straub]

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He's such a remarkable essayist, I've spent an embarrassing amount of  
internet time reading everything I can find on the subject of his  
actual identity.  It seems pretty clear he's John Dolan.  Right?  I've  
read some of Dolan's other stuff, it's not quite as great, but it's  
pretty good.  He recently wrote something for the new exile about a  
recent bout of extreme poverty he and his wife faced, it was a  
spectacular piece.  Really don't understand why he and the War Nerd  
don't have a higher profile in the writing world.  If I was Harpers  
I'd be banging his door down with offers.


> Almost moralistic by War Nerd standards. Brecher has a tendency  
> toward the lurid, shall we say. Any idea how accurate his  
> description of the Hutu militias is? (I have a sneaking suspicion  
> that some of the more gruesome tales coming out of Africa are  
> actually the local version of Huns-catching-babies-on-bayonets  
> propaganda, one tribe badmouthing another tribe to credulous  
> outsiders).
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