Good writing requires a character with a voice. Usually, the first sound bite is not the whole story. |
I never found the questions easy to answer, and the manner in which the country argued with itself seemed wholly inadequate to the scale of what we were about to get into. I first went to Iraq, and then kept going back, because I wanted to see past the abstractions to what the war meant in people's lives. |
In this country, Iraq was almost always about winning the argument. |
lies a distance even greater than the 8,000 miles from Washington to Baghdad. |
The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq |
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq |
the FEMA of the defense department. |
The Road to Hell. |