“ War becomes a part of you. It is a feeling just as much as an experience. If you can’t feel it, you weren’t paying attention. And if you weren’t paying attention, you are probably dead anyway. Clint Van Winkle
“ Evan no longer tells people I fight bad guys for a living. When asked, he tells his friends that his dad talks on the phone a lot and vacuums on occasion. David Bellavia
“ Everytime I hold you is the last time I hold you, I've known that since the very first time. Joakim Zander
“ The greatest regret of my military career was as Commanding General of the 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq in 2004-2005, he later wrote of the decision he made. I lost 169 soldiers during that year-long… David Finkel
“ Was I still myself? If so, who was I? I wasn’t really interested in knowing that. It had no sort of importance for me anymore. Some moorings had broken, some taboos had fallen, and a world of spells a… Yasmina Khadra
“ Facing a deteriorating economy and a weakening hold over the populace, the Iraqi state under Saddam Hussein opted to revitalize tribal leaders and conservative practices as a means of stabilizing stat… Nadje Al-Ali
“ Military intervention cannot liberate women because it is embedded within a set of assumptions, beliefs, and social relations that reinforce and reproduce gender inequality, as well as other social in… Nadje Al-Ali
“ To fuel yet another war this time against Iraq by cynically manipulating people's grief, by packaging it for TVspecials sponsored by corporations selling detergent and running shoes, is to cheapen and… Arundhati Roy
“ Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery? Ahmad Ardalan
“ Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how. David Bellavia
“ I don’t recall ever seeing my mother as a human being. She would always be weeping and wailing in the corner of the kitchen like a dog tied up to be tormented. My father would assail her with a hail o… Hassan Blasim
“ He took a deep breath in, still managing himself as if he were resisting temptation. He was a soldier, his father was in the service, too. Crying wasn't something Morell men did. They just didn't. He… Luke Taylor
“ I feel like so much has been left undone. There are friends I won't see before I leave, there are bills I still need to pay. I haven't written as much as I've wanted, and there are countless things I'… Jason Christopher Hartley
“ There is no way to imagine what it feels like to be shot at. I will never be with him when he is the most scared. Melissa Seligman
“ In the 10th century, Baghdad instituted a licensing exam that all doctors had to take before practicing as physicians Firas Alkhateeb
