An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

At 19, your brain hasn't finished wiring itself. So the first time you have a good friend die, most people don't go through that at 19. Soldiers do. They're facing life in this accelerated, compressed form, and a lot of times, they're not ready for it.

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

I’ve stopped war reporting. I realized that I’d answered all of my questions about war and about myself.

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.