I was forced to be political because I had bombs falling on me as a child in Tehran.
So you see, when war comes to one’s village, one’s doorstep, it isn’t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit private hatred. That is why I am not a great patriot.
Women are so much a part of war, even if they tend to see another side of it. To say they don't understand war is ridiculous.
No one else will really care, but I missed the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Also the war in Chechnya.
Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.
Every fight is a different experience.
I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.
I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.
You know why we're good at it? Because we get a lot of practice. This country is only 200 years old, and already we've had ten major wars. We average a major war every twenty years. So we're good at it!
Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!
What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in other places around the world, where we are working with them in an advisory capacity.
