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" A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well. "
Sebastian Junger
Take
Cocktail
Will
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" It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important. "
Sebastian Junger
Fun
Interesting
Money
" What is and isn't justified by military necessity is, naturally, open to interpretation. One of the key concepts, though, is the law of proportionality. A military attack that results in civilian casualties - 'collateral damage' - is acceptable as long as the military benefits outweigh the price that is paid by humanity. "
Sebastian Junger
Humanity
Results
Price
" I hope I get married one day. "
Sebastian Junger
One Day
Married
Hope
" I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking most of the risks. They're absorbing most of the casualties. And they're the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business. "
Sebastian Junger
Medical
Training
Risks
" I think, politically, I'm pretty left-wing, and I try to be very neutral in my work. "
Sebastian Junger
Think
Try
Work
" Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society. "
Sebastian Junger
Accept
Remember
Got
" I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made over my professional life. I think I could have made that much as a waiter or an insurance salesman. You know, I spent so many years in my 20's making $10,000 a year. "
Sebastian Junger
Know
Life
You
" In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't? "
Sebastian Junger
Theory
Life
Act
" I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life. "
Sebastian Junger
Climb
People
Mountains
" The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in 1989, and the Dayton Accords of 1995, which ended the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia, failed to address the issue of Kosovo's status. "
Sebastian Junger
War
President
End
" People really in the meat grinder of the front lines are not, for the most part, insured or salaried network correspondents. They're young freelancers. They're kind of a cheap date for the news industry. "
Sebastian Junger
Cheap
News
Young
" No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the region collapses back into the political Dark Ages. If we actively engage these movements with advice, with money, and, when necessary, with military force, then we get a vote in how it all turns out. "
Sebastian Junger
Remember
Vote
Advice
" Well, the fact that the news industry doesn't have enough money to only send salaried staff to war zones means there is an enormous, wide-open opportunity for young people who want to be on staff and don't know how to get there. "
Sebastian Junger
Opportunity
People
War
" I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military. "
Sebastian Junger
Military
Opinion
Pretty
" People ask me about 'The Hurt Locker' a lot, and it's an incredible piece of filmmaking - as are 'Band of Brothers' and 'Platoon' and 'Full Metal Jacket' and 'Apocalypse Now.' But they're not necessarily true to war in a literal sense. What they are, really, are brilliant movies about Hollywood's idea of war. "
Sebastian Junger
People
Hurt
Me
" There are no journalistic ethics that transcend the value of human life. There are none. In a situation where you can save a human life, you must. There isn't any conflict in my mind. "
Sebastian Junger
You
Mind
Life
" I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts. "
Sebastian Junger
People
Strange
You
" One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans. "
Sebastian Junger
World War I
Crime
Humanity
" If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have. "
Sebastian Junger
Target
War
Shell
" My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest. "
Sebastian Junger
End
Wife
Trees
" The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you're young or old, or a graduate from Harvard or the son of a farmer from Alabama, or if you're gay or straight or good-looking or ugly: none of those things matters much in combat, as long as you can conform to the group expectations. "
Sebastian Junger
Ugly
Son
Long
" Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty. "
Sebastian Junger
Divided
Duty
Leader
" No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well. "
Sebastian Junger
Job
Gun
Battle
" When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before. "
Sebastian Junger
Die
Giving
World
" Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf? "
Sebastian Junger
Office
You
Play
" If you get an infection, you get a fever; the fever is your body dealing with the infection. If you get traumatized, your mind and your brain have a reaction to that trauma. If you're not dreaming about it, something's probably wrong. "
Sebastian Junger
Wrong
You
Your Body
" There are photographers who don't really engage with their subject. It's a really unfortunate phrase, but they take their photo and they leave with it. It works but I think it ultimately limits how profound the work can be. "
Sebastian Junger
Work
Think
Leave
" I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been. "
Sebastian Junger
Think
World
World War II
" The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me. "
Sebastian Junger
Life
Car
Divorce
" 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
First
Why
Place