War is boring

David Axe is a correspondent for The Washington Times, C-SPAN, and BBC Radio. He has flown from conflict to conflict, reveling in death, danger, and destruction. Meanwhile, back in his D.C. apartment his furniture gathered dust, his plants died, and his relationships withered. War reporting was physically, emotionally, and financially draining and deeply disillusioning. He became a political man and his work became less about him and more about the true victims of the world's conflicts.