In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.

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.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

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

But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.