"There is a recurring pattern that is forming in my life and I don't like it," he says. "I've always found a path around the thing that scares me, hurt me, or upsets me." He writes about his decision to go back into Iraq after being humiliated by John McPhee's team at an Iraqi base. 'You have a convenient little out for yourself'

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