Michael Hastings Quotes

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• The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of British Special Forces,…
• A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 – al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it … The memorial service…
• The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best…
• Look, I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising,
• When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.
• Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of…
• I have to admit that the empty prestige and the stupid glory - yes, the horrible rush, the deadly sense of importance that war brings…
• It was either write or die for me.
• I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.
• I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.
• I was very fortunate to have fallen in love with an amazing woman. She was killed in a very horrible, horrific way in Iraq. We…
• As the CIA tried to find itself, the threat of international terrorism emanating from the Middle East, Africa, North Africa and Central and Southeast Asia…
• Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.
• The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting…
• During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.
• The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leader can receive real-time data from a…
• The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on…
• In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international…
• The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.
• My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq.

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