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We were missing the stories about Iraq, the people who live there, and what was happening to them under the weight of the war.
There were less than one percent of all news stories in 2008 that went to the war in Afghanistan.
It was the longest war in US history, but information was so scarce that schoolteachers we spoke to told us they had trouble explaining to their students what we were doing there, when those students had parents who were fighting and sometimes dying overseas.
Just around that time where I was making that observation, I looked across the border of Iraq and noticed there was another story we were missing: the war in Syria.
Like this one from the suburbs of Damascus, about a wheelchair race that gave hope to those wounded in the war.
Postwar Kosovo was a very interesting place because NATO troops were there, mostly to make sure the war didn't break out again.
That's when this landmark study that looked at and described the public health consequences of war was published.
These researchers concluded that the vast majority of death and disability from war happens after the cessation of conflict.
That seems so puzzling, but of course it's not, because war kills people by robbing them of their clinics, of their hospitals, of their supply chains.
But what is surprising and somewhat dismaying, is how little impact this insight has had, in terms of how we think about human suffering and war.
Doctors Without Borders is an amazing organization, dedicated and designed to provide emergency care in war zones.
Despite the urgency of a war, it still took a full 100 years for actual social inclusion to occur.
Seven have even seen their films made in the last three years, including the film "Nightingale," the story of a war veteran's psychological decline, in which David Oyelowo's face is the only one on screen for the film's 90-minute duration.
For the first time in history, more people commit suicide than are killed by crime and terrorism and war put together.
I mean, if Brexit was about British independence, this is the most peaceful war of independence in human history.
But to start a war, you can still do so very easily.
Even if a nation loses a war, we say, "Germany suffered a defeat in the First World War," it's a metaphor.
Is it going to take war to get there?
And many countries basically took out war from their political toolkit.
And this is maybe the most important reason why international violence declined dramatically since 1945, and today, as I said, more people commit suicide than are killed in war.
Before the war, America had been highly protectionist.
After the war, you opened your markets to Europe, you dragged Europe into the then-global economy, which was your economy, and you institutionalized that trade liberalization through founding the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
Before the war, your security policy had been isolationist.
After the war, you tear that up, you put 100,000 troops in Europe for over 40 years.
Before the war, you treated national sovereignty as so sacrosanct that you weren't even willing to join the League of Nations.
Our job was to find out how many Iraqis had been forced from their homes as a result of the war, and what they needed.
Only 16 percent defined it as, "violent holy war against unbelievers."
This is the really important point: based on those numbers, it's totally possible that no one in the survey who defined it as violent holy war also said they support it.
This is the foundation of all of social science, the foundation of religion, the foundation of war.
In some cultures, they go to war without changing their appearance.
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