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War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

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The U.S. presence and American missteps made ethnic violence in Iraq far worse than it would have been otherwise after Saddam Saddam Hussein's fall.

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The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.

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Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.

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An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I was only 24, a little young to be a station chief, and, of course, I was never with the C.I.A.

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I had some training on how to cope with hostage-taking.

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After literally hundreds of firefights, Chosen Company became increasingly battle-hardened. And they also became increasingly suspicious of their Afghan counterparts, believing - with their lives on the line at the end of the day - that they could only truly rely on themselves.

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Everyone knows what can happen to soldiers who are in front line units.

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By 2007, Iraqi society had completely collapsed.

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There is no Afghan Awakening Movement.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 16th, 1973

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