Afghanistan can’t police its borders, and its neighbors give sanctuary and assistance to insurgents. George Packer Read Quote
If the presidential nominating process were an international sports competition, one would assume that top officials of both parties were taking envelopes of cash from town chairs in Durham and precinct captains in Waterloo. George Packer Read Quote
Charlie Hebdo’ had been nondenominational in its satire, sticking its finger into the sensitivities of Jews and Christians, too – but only Muslims responded with threats and acts of terrorism. George Packer Read Quote
The reformocons court right-wing censure simply by acknowledging that the middle class is under pressure and that government has a role to play beyond cutting taxes. George Packer Read Quote
WikiLeaks is not a news organization; it is a cell of activists that is releasing information designed to embarrass people in power. George Packer Read Quote
Discerning the legal difference between what WikiLeaks did and what news organizations do is difficult and would set a terrible precedent. George Packer Read Quote
I don’t think they need to be nice to reporters, but the White House seems to imagine that releasing information is like a tap that can be turned on and off at their whim. George Packer Read Quote
It seems in America you are stuck with the position you adopted, even when events change, in order to claim absolute consistency. That can’t be good. George Packer Read Quote
Lawyers, judges, doctors, shrinks, accountants, investigators and, not least, journalists could not do the most basic tasks without a veil of secrecy. Why shouldn’t the same be true of those professionals who happen to be government officials? George Packer Read Quote
It suddenly occurred to me that the hottest tech startups are solving all the problems of being 20 years old, with cash on hand, because that’s who thinks them up. George Packer Read Quote
