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To the point where he radiated a sort of energy that made you realize he was unafraid and it made you treat him different than other people in the business. i remember talking with michael the night that his "rolling stones" story on general mcchrystal popped here. he was in afghanistan at the time. he was about to head out on an embed. i was trying to talk to him about what he had just done and trying to talk to him into the idea that he might want to make his way out of the war zone he was in before the moment at which his reporting would cause the firing of the very popular man who was runn...

Michael hastings was actually unafraid. to the point where he radiated a sort of energy that made you realize he was unafraid and it made you treat him different than other people in the business. i remember talking with michael the night that his "rolling stones" story on general mcchrystal popped here. he was in afghanistan at the time. he was about to head out on an embed. i was trying to talk to him about what he had just done and trying to talk to him into the idea that he might want to make his way out of the war zone he was in before the moment at which his reporting would cause the fir...

Stones" story on general mcchrystal popped here. he was in afghanistan at the time. he was about to head out on an embed. i was trying to talk to him about what he had just done and trying to talk to him into the idea that he might want to make his way out of the war zone he was in before the moment at which his reporting would cause the firing of the very popular man who was running that war that he was in the middle of. but michael was in kandahar that night and michael stayed. he went out on the embed. he was unafraid. that merciless reporting he did on general mcchrystal and his staff beca...

Epic effect in his book called "the operators." after president obama's first commander of the afghanistan war was fired, after his second commander was fired, president obama turned to the most high profile military leader in the country, general david petraeus, to become his third afghanistan war commanding general. that tenure in afghanistan lasted a year. as the president surged tens of thousands of more americans into that country, ultimately tripling the number of troops who were there when he first took office, that year at the front ended for general petraeus when he came back to washi...

Families a priority, as you noticed, and yesterday the obama campaign rolled out its veterans and military families for obama effort. military has gone republican and the obama campaign wants to change that. this man as extensive experience covering the military. we all know that, mike, after getting the crystal from the rolling stone. he wrote this book "the operators." joe sestag, my compadre. i know your heart is with these guys. i want to talk about the fact that here we have a president -- is part of this about the fact, certainly this war isn't the most popular in the world, the one in a...