113 Quotes by Phil Klay

The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.

The First Battle of Fallujah was called off in part because of the intensity of non-U.S. media coverage of civilian casualties from outlets like Al Jazeera.

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps.

A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.

Bombs do very, very bad things to human bodies. It's incredibly shocking to see.

Certainly, when I'd left Iraq back in 2008, I'd been proud of my service, but whether we'd been successful or not was still an open question.

Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?

Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.