From the archive:

People say to me, "Whatever it takes." I tell them, It's going to take everything.

"This is going to be a long, hard slog," said Ryan Crocker.

There is undeniably a Blade Runner–like feel to this city. The violence is so pervasive and unfathomable that you wonder what people think they are dying for.

"We no longer know what is going on, but we are pretending we do."

“Is it dead?” I asked stupidly.

The squirrel raced around the cage, blood dripping from somewhere around its mouth. WHEE-WHEE-WHEE. The same noise.

“I know it’s bad when they run,” Redesdale apologized. I thought I saw the warm-vomit look in his eyes.

"I have girlfriends that love gratuitous violence, blood and gore and people getting carved to pieces," she said.

She is right about one thing: The number of young women buying tickets to the bloody new wave of horror films is striking, and even Hollywood executives say they are surprised.

Try this for range: cannibalism, castration, decapitation, dismemberment, electrocution, hanging, massacres, pedophilia, slashings and lots and lots of torture.

RE: Military Conflict