Graeme Bint

“War is always more complex. Economics, history, religion all have a role, but not for the ones dodging the bullets. They just get blown around like seeds in the wind until the city folk with calculators and Swiss bank accounts stop talking rot from a bunker under a mountain.”
― Bill Carter, Fools Rush In: A True Story of War and Redemption

“If there was a bad guy we could appeal to the people because, like it or not, we, the huddled masses, want our public figures to be good or bad but rarely allow them to mix the two. Not good an bad. We place people in these categories, which then creates a smooth story-line but also a dichotomy. It's why we like our male movie stars to be either bad boys or heroes, our leading ladies sluts or soccer moms. We like our politicians to be tough guys or saints. What we don't like are any signs of actual humanity, a mixture of the two. So we are left with the question: who is the bad guy? And is the bad guy in control of all that is bad?”
― Bill Carter, Fools Rush In: A True Story of War and Redemption

“That week we tried everything to bury our heads in the sand. But the problem remains the same world over; the sand is never quite deep enough.”
― Bill Carter, Fools Rush In: A True Story of War and Redemption

“It's my experience that people want to do something, but become confused by an overwhelming sense of hopelessness, not knowing what to do, and in the end do the only thing they believe they possibly can: nothing.”
― Bill Carter, Fools Rush In: A True Story of War and Redemption