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“Why should we, the brains of the military, have so much anxiety about our contribution to the war that we feel we have to ape Special Forces guys?
To Fitzgerald commandos were just glorified jocks - pitchers and quarterbacks from suburban high schools who traded baseballs for bullets. There's no doubt they had skills. They could slither right up to the enemy on their stomachs survive on worms for days and plunk a target with a piece of lead from a mile away. All very impressive. But they couldn't speak Arabic or juggle a million intelligence requirements and 703 follow-up questions from the community while sitting three feet away from some Islamic firebrand who has no reason to talk.
"Do you think those Special Forces guys are wracked with Interrogator envy?" Fitzgerald would say. "You think they're over there in their special sunglasses polishing their special weapons saying 'man if only I could do some hot-shit interrogations and write some hot-shit reports?”
― The Interrogators: Task Force 500 and America's Secret War Against Al Qaeda
To Fitzgerald commandos were just glorified jocks - pitchers and quarterbacks from suburban high schools who traded baseballs for bullets. There's no doubt they had skills. They could slither right up to the enemy on their stomachs survive on worms for days and plunk a target with a piece of lead from a mile away. All very impressive. But they couldn't speak Arabic or juggle a million intelligence requirements and 703 follow-up questions from the community while sitting three feet away from some Islamic firebrand who has no reason to talk.
"Do you think those Special Forces guys are wracked with Interrogator envy?" Fitzgerald would say. "You think they're over there in their special sunglasses polishing their special weapons saying 'man if only I could do some hot-shit interrogations and write some hot-shit reports?”
― The Interrogators: Task Force 500 and America's Secret War Against Al Qaeda
“this coffee tasted to good it made Agnes Shepherd cry”
― Radio Mustard: Book One: The Weight
― Radio Mustard: Book One: The Weight
“this coffee tasted so good it made Agnes Shepherd cry”
― Radio Mustard: Book One: The Weight
― Radio Mustard: Book One: The Weight
“grown men who wear water shoes to the grocery store deserve all the scorn which is heaped upon them”
― Radio Mustard: Book One: The Weight
― Radio Mustard: Book One: The Weight
“Cousin Stupidd is here, he has inoperable brain cancer....I just put a pillow over his face”
― Radio Mustard: Book One: The Weight
― Radio Mustard: Book One: The Weight
“One day John J. Eastwood said, “There is a bad guy in town.” He said, “I want to fight him.” “First”, he said,
“I’m going to have some whiskey.” Then he went outside and started a fight. But he got shot. But he didn’t really get shot. But he killed a hot dog! The next day he was dead. We had his funeral.....
Kids, this is about westerns”
― Radio Mustard: Book One: The Weight
“I’m going to have some whiskey.” Then he went outside and started a fight. But he got shot. But he didn’t really get shot. But he killed a hot dog! The next day he was dead. We had his funeral.....
Kids, this is about westerns”
― Radio Mustard: Book One: The Weight
