It's Very Easy To Start A War

I Suppose, In The End, We Journalists Try - Or Should Try - To Be The First Impartial Witnesses Of History. If We Have Any Reason For Our Existence, The Least Must Be Our Ability To Report History As It Happens So That No One Can Say: 'we Didn't Know - No One Told Us.'

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.

The Violence Stems From Injustice, Because People Feel They Have Been Treated Unfairly In The Middle East, Whether That Means Military Occupation, Starvation Under U.n. Sanctions, Whether It Means That They Have A Dictatorship Imposed On Them, Propped Up By The West. This Is Why People Turn To Violence, Because They Have No Other Avenue Left.

At Baalbek Nuts I Bought Pistachios From The Lebanese Owners, Who Answered My Request For Their Thoughts On The War With The Typically Lebanese Response Of No Problem. It's A Lie, As We All Knew.

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.