Neil Shea

I invite you to listen to a conversation I had recently about my latest work with Dick Gordon on his radio program, The Story.

There has been a lot of interest in this essay, written for The American Scholar, about time I spent with U.S. troops who appeared to be on the edge of committing serious crimes. The piece was published just before the massacre in Kandahar, and in the days following many readers and journalists have asked me to comment on the killings, and on the pressures building over U.S. troops. The timing of the essay and the killings is sadly coincidental, but at least there is now a good discussion taking place on the web, and, to a limited extent in newspapers and on television, about what we ask our troops to do and what the price for that can be.