Journalism Quotes by Michael Hastings

I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.

— Michael Hastings

The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we…

— Michael Hastings

If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably - that probably…

— Michael Hastings

I'm post-cynical on this stuff. I look at the El Salvador model as the glory days: Why don't we just fund the death squads…

— Michael Hastings

Whether or not Afghanistan would be a peaceful nation-state had we not gone into Iraq I doubt. Afghanistan is going to be Afghanistan, no…

— Michael Hastings

One of their major initiatives was getting all officers on Facebook. So the question is, why are these people who are there to train…

— Michael Hastings

It was interesting watching the Afghanistan war review deliberations, this three-month process where Barack Obama did the most thorough foreign policy review ever by…

— Michael Hastings

Inside the White House there were always extreme amounts of doubt about whether they should be escalating in Afghanistan. In fact, most of the…

— Michael Hastings

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

— Michael Hastings

If someone tells you something is off the record, I don't print it. If they don't tell me something is off the record, then…

— Michael Hastings

If you polled the military in Afghanistan as to how many think we should be there or not, the numbers would probably be similar…

— Michael Hastings

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be…

— Michael Hastings

“Her name has been released to the press. Her photograph is released, too. I want to talk to the press about it. I don't…

— Michael Hastings

The frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs and propaganda,…

— Michael Hastings

An information operations team was sent to Afghanistan to conduct various psychological operations on the Afghans and Taliban. The team was then asked not…

— Michael Hastings