The Word 'democracy' And The Name Of

U.s. Journalists I Don't Think Are Very Courageous. They Tend To Go Along With The Government's Policy Domestically And Internationally. To Question Is Seen As Being Unpatriotic, Or Potentially Subversive.

I Don't Like The Definition 'war Correspondent'. It Is History, Not Journalism, That Has Condemned The Middle East To War. I Think 'war Correspondent' Smells A Bit, Reeks Of False Romanticism: It Has Too Much Of The Whiff Of Victorian Reporters Who Would View Battles From Hilltops In The Company Of Ladies, Immune To Suffering, Only Occasionally Glancing Towards The Distant Pop-pop Of Cannon Fire.

Some Of The Guys In The Northern Alliance Are War Criminals. One Of The Northern Alliance Commanders Ran A Slave Girl Network In Kabul In 1994. Remember That There Was A Period When Every Woman On The Streets Was At Risk Of Being Raped. This Was The Northern Alliance Period Of Glory.

Clinton Impressed Assad: A Young Man Who Appeared To Want To Be Neutral In The Arab-israeli Dispute - An Illusion Of Course, But That's What Assad Thought.

The Americans May Think They Have 'liberated' Baghdad But The Tens Of Thousands Of Thieves - They Came In Families And Cruised The City In Trucks And Cars Searching For Booty - Seem To Have A Different Idea What Liberation Means.