Sebastian Junger Quotes

I'm A Good Liberal, And I Grew Up In A Very Liberal Family And Had Very Strongly Held Beliefs.

Who Wants A Life Of Ease? And Who Wants A Life In The Office That You Hate, And Who Wants To Play Golf?

Traditional Albanian Society Was Based On A Clan System And Was Further Divided Into Brotherhoods And Bajraks. The Bajrak System Identified A Local Leader, Called A Bajrakar, Who Could Be Counted On To Provide A Certain Number Of Men For Military Duty.

My Wife, Daniela, And I Live In An Old House From 1810 With Three Fireplaces At The End Of A Dead-end Dirt Road On Cape Cod, So I Turn The Trees Into Firewood For Us And A Friend Of Mine Sells The Rest.

Well, You Got To Remember, Bin Laden Killed 3,000 Americans And, In Some Ways, He And His Ideology Killed Tens Of Thousands Of His Fellow Muslims, Including Pakistanis. I Understand That That Was Provocative And Complicated For Pakistan, But Only If You Accept The Idea That He Was An Acceptable Member Of Pakistani Society.

How Do Men Act On A Sinking Ship? Do They Hold Each Other? Do They Pass Around The Whisky? Do They Cry?

I Decided To Start A Medical Training Program For Freelancers, Only Freelancers. They're The Ones Who Are Doing Most Of The Combat Reporting. They're Taking Most Of The Risks. They're Absorbing Most Of The Casualties. And They're The Most Underserved And Under-resourced Of Everyone In The Entire News Business.

I Hope I Get Married One Day.

I Had Grown Up During Vietnam. I Had No Connections To The U.s. Military, And I Had A Pretty Cynical Default Opinion About The U.s. Military.

No One Will Remember That President Obama Supported The Arab Spring If It Eventually Fails And The Region Collapses Back Into The Political Dark Ages. If We Actively Engage These Movements With Advice, With Money, And, When Necessary, With Military Force, Then We Get A Vote In How It All Turns Out.

Here's An Easy Way To See If A War Movie Is Being Truthful: If You See An Explosion On A Faraway Hillside And The Sound Of The Explosion And The Detonation Of The Bomb Happen At The Same Time - If They're Putting The Sound And The Vision Together In The Same Moment - They're Going Toward Our Cultural Understanding Of War, Not The Reality Of War.

If You Shell A Military Base And Happen To Kill Civilians, You Have Not Committed A War Crime; If You Deliberately Target Cities And Towns, You Have.