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 pushed him into a war he didn't want to fight.
I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation. - Michael Hastings
I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.
- 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
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…
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
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 …
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained. - Michael Hastings
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.
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
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…
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
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 …
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
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…
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
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 …
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
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…
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