Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.