When I went to Afghanistan in 2009 as a military contractor, I was questioning why we were over there messing with those people. It’s not entirely because they’re the bad guys. It’s not at all black and white like that. Of course, the military industrial complex needed a boost and it was a dream contract to provide a decade’s worth of stuff supporting “the mission.” I don’t know if the opium had anything to do with it. I don’t know if natural resources had anything to do with it. A person can go far down the rabbit hole with that one.

I don’t do that kind of work anymore. It was an experience.