Dan Rather And I Just Aren't Especially

To Say That We Are Closer To Victory Today Is To Believe In The Face Of The Evidence, The Optimists Who Have Been Wrong In The Past. To Say That We Are Mired In Stalemate Seems The Only Realistic, Yet Unsatisfactory, Conclusion. It Is Increasingly Clear To This Reporter That The Only Rational Way Out Then Will Be To Negotiate, Not As Victors, But As An Honorable People Who Lived Up To Their Pledge To Defend Democracy, And Did The Best They Could.

For How Many Thousands Of Years Now Have We Humans Been What We Insist On Calling "civilized?" And Yet, In Total Contradiction, We Also Persist In The Savage Belief That We Must Occasionally, At Least, Settle Our Arguments By Killing One Another.

In Seeking Truth You Have To Get Both Sides Of A Story.

Ethics Must Be Reintroduced To Public Service To Restore People's Faith In Government. Without Such Faith, Democracy Cannot Flourish. Your Ambitious Agenda Is Filling A Desperate Need.

The Profession Of Journalism Ought To Be About Telling People What They Need To Know - Not What They Want To Know.