Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.

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

In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.

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