Lynsey Addario Quotes

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

Journalists dedicate their lives to covering war - they make many personal sacrifices, and it's not something that's gender-based. In a place like Libya where there's heavy fighting, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman.

If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?

I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.

I think war is a dangerous place.

My life isn't always at risk, even if I'm in a war zone. A lot of these places have areas of calm, so covering war doesn't necessarily mean being shot at all the time.

I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone.

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was still taking place. The Americans were still pinned down under fire. And everybody else was basically going the other way, and I was the only one putting my hand up for a flight in.

When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of detail. They gave me the code numbers for the various positions they've got, told me where the rebels were - about 800 meters away in a forest. I met soldiers who had been wounded but were still serving.

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

It is better to make our enemy's country the theater of war than our own.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

I was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents near Fallujah, in Iraq, ambushed by the Taliban in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, and injured in a car accident that killed my driver while covering the Taliban occupation of the Swat Valley in Pakistan.

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

In time of war the laws are silent.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

There is no such thing as a politically correct war.

Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.

I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'

The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.