“If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many, many people on the other end of the world, you have absolute power and you're not prepared for it.” PeopleIfsWorldYearsLittlesEndsCasesAbsolutesPreparedEnd Of The WorldEighteenNineteenAbsolute Power Author:Yaroslav Trofimov
“I did some embedded stuff. And if you are embedded, the only things you see are what the soldiers see, and if the people talk to you, they talk to you as if you are a soldier, because with your flak jacket and your helmet, they can't tell the difference between you and the soldier next to you, and they obviously won't tell you what they really think because they are afraid of you.” PeopleIfsThinkingNextStuffDifferencesSoldierJacketsEmbeddedHelmet Author:Yaroslav Trofimov
“Because no matter how much money we spend there [in Iraq], as long as the people there see this money as... as assistance that is unwelcome, as long as they continue to be humiliated in their own country by us... I mean, the future looked bleak, and the future after that was in fact very bleak.” PeopleMeanLongCountryMatterFactsIraqAssistanceBleakHumiliatedUnwelcome Author:Yaroslav Trofimov
“Long before 9/11 and the war in Iraq, a lot of people hated the United States and the West. But what the Iraqi war seems to have done, at least in... I mean, I'm just reporting what I see from the people on the ground, is that it has silenced many pro-American forces in the Muslim world.” PeopleWorldMeanLongWarStatesDoneSeemsForceUnitedUnited StatesWestIraqHatedMuslim World Author:Yaroslav Trofimov
