I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy..

I had a recurring fantasy in which I took (Rudy Giuliani) out during a press conference (it was nonlethal, just something that put him out of commiss….

Look, I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising..

When you go into a country like Libya where a large chunk of the population wants the old regime back you could end up with a protracted civil war. T….

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained..

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic ….

If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan is that the generals pushe….

The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite havin….

As the wealthiest country with all the blessings that we have, do we have an obligation to help the outside world? I think we do, as we have an oblig….

The frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs and propaganda, and essent….

I did an embed in Afghanistan on the Pakistan border in 2008. One of the things you realize when you're talking to low-ranking enlisted men is that n….

Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, talk about how the U.S. became a national security state after World War II. Essentially there's this bipa….

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory..

I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive..

A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 – al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it … The memorial service with me crying ….

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be ….

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation..

General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of Rolling Stone..

One of their major initiatives was getting all officers on Facebook. So the question is, why are these people who are there to train the Afghans bein….

The way the Pentagon and its defenders have pushed back against this story is to say: "They weren't doing psychological operations, they were doing i….

I thought Gen. McChrystal was unfireable, that his position was secure..