Sebastian Junger Quotes About Afghanistan

Quotes about: Afghanistan

• War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

  Sebastian Junger

  Veterans Day, Military, War

  "War". Book by Sebastian Junger, www.hoover.org. 2010.

• The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another’s lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly.

  Sebastian Junger

  Girlfriend, Commitment, Army

  "Failing the Voight-Kampff" by Dylan Ratigan, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2013.

• The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.

  Sebastian Junger

  Als, Rogues, Firsts

  "Journalist Sebastian Junger". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. June 10, 2011.

• I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right before the Taliban took over, literally a few weeks before they took Kabul. The frontline wasn't terribly active, but it was definitely there. And they swept into power.

  Sebastian Junger

  Writing, Training, Mountain

  "A Few Good Men". Interview with Adam Weinstein, motherjones.com. September/October 2010.

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