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

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.

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.

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

We live in an extraordinary time, in which one still has the ability to mold opinion. Also, it's up for grabs. Perceptions are up for grabs in a way that it hasn't been before, which makes it really interesting. Societies that have always defined other aspects of human experience, or histories, try to hold on to it and try to find ways to continue to be the ones who do the interpreting.