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

- Michael Hastings

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

- Michael Hastings

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…

- Michael Hastings

Johnny Apple, a New York Times correspondent, wrote a front-page story saying Afghanistan could be a quagmire and he was mocked and derided. What is …

- Michael Hastings

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…

- Michael Hastings

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…

- Michael Hastings

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…

- Michael Hastings

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 …

- Michael Hastings

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 …

- Michael Hastings