I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.

If you're young and inexperienced you might accept what people tell you, that everything's going to be fine, it's okay. It's usually other young people saying that, who don't know any better. It's good to have a survival instinct because increasingly, especially in the whole Arab Spring sort of violence, you're mostly with young people who have not experienced what they're doing before.

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.