The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.

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