Afghanistan can't police its borders, and its neighbors give sanctuary and assistance to insurgents. — George Packer Copy Share Image
American wars in Muslim countries created some extremists and inflamed many more while producing a security vacuum that allowed them to wreak… — George Packer Copy Share Image
'The Assassins' Gate' is a very tightly controlled story of the ideas that led to the war and the consequences of those… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I would caution anyone who thinks the solution is to get out to realize that Iraq will be our problem, whether we're… — George Packer Copy Share Image
While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Al Qaeda asks its recruits to establish their bona fides as a condition of membership, even requiring answers to a long questionnaire.… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The Iraq war was always a long shot. But it was made immeasurably longer by its principal architects in Washington, including Douglas… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“This malignant persistence since September 11th is the biggest surprise of all. In previous decades, sneak attacks, stock-market crashes, and other great… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war:… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven't stopped being surprised.… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I don't think they need to be nice to reporters, but the White House seems to imagine that releasing information is like a tap… — George Packer Copy Share Image
So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where writing was… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Afghanistan can't police its borders, and its neighbors give sanctuary and assistance to insurgents. — George Packer Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton's such a classic Democratic political figure and believes so much in institutions and in gradualism in the old way of reaching compromises… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“In other words, Foxx represented what Sarah Palin (speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Greensboro three weeks before the election) called “the real America,”… — George Packer Copy Share Image
America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach. — George Packer Copy Share Image
'The Assassins' Gate' is a very tightly controlled story of the ideas that led to the war and the consequences of those ideas in… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating. — George Packer Copy Share Image
Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands. — George Packer Copy Share Image
Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores… — George Packer Copy Share Image
