General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.' — Michael Hastings Cover Copy Share Image
I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation. — Michael Hastings Generation Copy Share Image
When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence. — Michael Hastings Audience Copy Share Image
Look, I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising, — Michael Hastings Advertising Copy Share Image
I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising. — Michael Hastings Advertising Copy Share Image
The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media. — Michael Hastings Always 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 Military Copy Share Image
I think it's very difficult to make people care about natives in another country. — Michael Hastings About Copy Share Image
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained. — Michael Hastings Entirety Copy Share Image
I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track… — Michael Hastings Almost Copy Share Image
Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory. — Michael Hastings Afghanistan Copy Share Image
I thought Gen. McChrystal was unfireable, that his position was secure. — Michael Hastings Gen 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 State department Copy Share Image
I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create… — Michael Hastings Able Copy Share Image
The only thing I've ever regretted is not writing more; not being more honest; not saying how it really is in Baghdad.… — Michael Hastings Baghdad Copy Share Image
There is not much of a bureaucratic leap, if history is any guide, between a seemingly benign call for 'continuous situational awareness'… — Michael Hastings Any Copy Share Image
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 Aerial Copy Share Image
An information operations team was sent to Afghanistan to conduct various psychological operations on the Afghans and Taliban. The team was then… — Michael Hastings Afghanistan Copy Share Image
To General McChrystal, those men on his team are his family. You know, these guys, they would do anything. They would die… — Michael Hastings Anything Copy Share Image
If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan… — Michael Hastings Afghanistan 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… — Michael Hastings Afghanistan 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 Afghanistan 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 Afghan Copy Share Image
I made this bad joke on Twitter saying, "I want to put in my first no-bid contract to train the Libyan army… — Michael Hastings Army 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 Decision Copy Share Image
Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic, and relatively young for an agent who'd… — Michael Hastings Afghanistan Copy Share Image
I love living in Vermont and I love living in New York. Does my love for Vermont give us the right to… — Michael Hastings Culture Copy Share Image
A soldier in Iraq said that he wanted to "punch Donald Rumsfeld in the gut, then in the face" or something like… — Michael Hastings Frustration Copy Share Image
Even on just the career level for your average officer, there's no incentive to end the wars. There's not even an incentive… — Michael Hastings Fighting Copy Share Image
The frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs… — Michael Hastings Affair Copy Share Image
A $200 million contract just got awarded to develop software to provide the Department of Defense with all these sock puppets who… — Michael Hastings Fake Copy Share Image
“Janet Malcolm had famously described journalism as the art of seduction and betrayal. Any reporter who didn't see journalism as "morally indefensible"… — michael hastings Art 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 Absurd Copy Share Image
I did an embed in Afghanistan on the Pakistan border in 2008. One of the things you realize when you're talking to… — Michael Hastings Afghanistan Copy Share Image
I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive. — Michael Hastings Morality Copy Share Image
During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions. — Michael Hastings Drones Copy Share Image
I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day.… — Michael Hastings Day Copy Share Image
I welcome all interviews with 'Rolling Stone' magazine, and I'm sure people will talk to me in the future. — Michael Hastings Future Copy Share Image
My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq. — Michael Hastings Army Copy Share Image
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