And history`s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their presence.

In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.

Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.

Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.