During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.

The State Department is essentially... I was going to use the word useless. But I don't know if that's correct.

I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

I'm talking to people all of the time. So it hasn't really had a big impact. Access is never my main concern anyway. If you keep digging and making phone calls you can get stories and not have to rely on the good graces of the Pentagon spokesperson. I am not in his good graces.

After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.

During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.

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.