It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.
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American journalists go for safe stories. They don't like controversy. They don't like to say, 'I was a witness. I saw this. This is true. This is what happened. You have this constant business where journalists can never be the source there has to be this anonymous diplomat.Robert Fisk
War is not about victory or defeat. It is about the total failure of human spirit. When you see the things I see, you would never support war ever again.
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Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.
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The Americans must leave, the Americans will leave and the terrible tragedy is the Americans can't leave because that is the equation that will turn sand into blood.
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I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin Laden.
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