Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history: never have so few killed… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
The fact that our largest presence in the world is our massive military is going to dictate how we engage with the… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions. — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Clearly the American military has been a force for good for the United States. There's a reason we have a standing military.… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Inside the White House there were always extreme amounts of doubt about whether they should be escalating in Afghanistan. In fact, most… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
If you polled the military in Afghanistan as to how many think we should be there or not, the numbers would probably… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Inside the White House there were always extreme amounts of doubt about whether they should be escalating in Afghanistan. In fact, most… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, talk about how the U.S. became a national security state after World War II. Essentially there's… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
The military sensed weakness, exploited it and played Barack Obama. Obama's foreign policy has been consistently hawkish despite this reluctant warrior schtick… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
We also need to look at precedent before making these decisions. Instead of listening to Muammar Qaddafi's rhetoric, we should look at… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
As the wealthiest country with all the blessings that we have, do we have an obligation to help the outside world? I… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive. — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The State Department is essentially... I was going to use the word useless. But I don't know if that's correct. — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
