War Is Primarily Not About Victory Or

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.

Whether Osama Bin Laden Is Doing It Cynically And Has No Interest In These Matters, Or Whether He's Doing It Out Of Genuine Conviction, His Voice Has A Tremendous Resonance Throughout The Arab World. One Editorial In A Lebanese Paper Said It Is A Matter Of Great Humiliation For The Arabs That The Only Man Who Can Outline, Truthfully, What Our Humiliations Are Is An Arab Who Has To Say It From A Cave In A Foreign Country.

In One Way, I Fear All Damascus Is A Dungeon. Or Do You Have To Live Here To Appreciate That?

Colleagues Will Malign You If You're A Moderately Successful Journalist.

Bin Laden Was Constantly Revolving In His Mind The Fact That He Had Got Rid Of The Russians; Therefore, The Americans Can Be Got Rid Of, Too. And Where Better Than In The Country Where He Knows How To Fight?