In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It destroys the outside world until it is hard to live outside war's grip. It takes a higher and higher dose to achieve any thrill. Finally, one ingests war only to remain numb.

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His newspaper The New York Times criticized his statements and issued him a formal reprimand for "public remarks that could undermine public trust in the paper's impartiality.

He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America the Middle East Africa and the Balkans. Chris Hedges is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City. He has taught at Columbia University New York University Princeton University and The University of Toronto.