George Packer Quotes

the FEMA of the defense department.

Good writing requires a character with a voice. Usually, the first sound bite is not the whole story.

In this country, Iraq was almost always about winning the argument.

The Assassin`s Gate: America in Iraq

I never found the questions easy to answer, and the manner in which the country argued with itself seemed wholly inadequate to the scale of what we were about to get into. I first went to Iraq, and then kept going back, because I wanted to see past the abstractions to what the war meant in people`s lives.

The Assassins` Gate: America in Iraq

The Road to Hell.

lies a distance even greater than the 8,000 miles from Washington to Baghdad.