The Insurgents Quotes

“Lookit!” he said, pounding a nearby table. “My job is not to deal with this people thing! My job is to kill the enemy!”
― Fred Kaplan, The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War

“Nothing of the sort was true in Iraq, where the people, like many Muslims in the region, deeply distrusted foreign occupiers.”
― Fred Kaplan, The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War