'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
“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
One book that I heard was circulating the Green Zone was "Bureaucracy Does Its Thing" by Robert Komer , who worked for… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“The slow, mismanaged arrival of armored vehicles and bulletproof plates for flak vests was only the most conspicuous demonstration of how the… — 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
I am reading "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers and "Redeployment" by Phil Klay . Both Powers and Klay are Iraq War… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid. I had this series by Ballantine Books about the history of World Wars I and II. In… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The literature of the Spanish Civil War is also important to me. Above all George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" as well as… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of… — 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
Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of… — 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
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“This isn't to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes and goals of both… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers… — 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
