I did some embedded stuff. And if you are embedded, the only things you see are what the soldiers see, and if the people talk to you, they talk to yo….

If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many, many people on the other e….

Long before 9/11 and the war in Iraq, a lot of people hated the United States and the West. But what the Iraqi war seems to have done, at least in...….

Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America, because they are afraid that….

In a country like Iraq with its culture of blood feuds - is that the more locals are killed, the more motivation there is for the insurgency, for the….

The other problem is that the priority of many soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan is operational security: not getting killed. Now that is a very valid ….

In the occupation in Afghanistan, there are tragedies as well. It's not as bad as in Iraq because there are fewer American troops. But, as I describe….

I think in Baghdad, any westerner, journalist or not, has a big dollar sign on his or her forehead. So, first and foremost, you are a ticket to unima….

The American official was trying to talk about aid and development projects and finally a local tribal chief got up and said, "Even if you turn our c….

So our own actions sometimes have undermined our safety, in our efforts to fight terrorism. The only way this can work is if we are aligned with libe….

Even if you are a liberal in the Muslim world, when you see Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and you see all the other reports of abuses by American forces….

Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers..

What I found most ironic is that the safest part for us as journalists was during the actual war. Back then, during that stage of fighting, we were n….

Well, it's a problem in general with the American military. If you are the biggest and the strongest military power in the world, you have this natur….

And if you look at the experience of Turkey, for example, where the modern Islamists are in power and are doing fine - this is very good. Because dem….

Because no matter how much money we spend there [in Iraq], as long as the people there see this money as... as assistance that is unwelcome, as long ….

The rules of engagement are so lax that soldiers are shooting and killing Iraqis under mere suspicion, and tragedies are everyday. There are road kil….

I think the behavior of the troops has been a huge factor in the rise of the insurgency and in the rise of the anti-American feelings there[in Iraq]..

But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions di….