U.s. Journalists I Don't Think

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

After The Allied Victory Of 1918, At The End Of My Father's War, The Victors Divided Up The Lands Of Their Former Enemies. In The Space Of Just Seventeen Months, They Created The Borders Of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia And Most Of The Middle East. And I Have Spent My Entire Career — In Belfast And Sarajevo, In Beirut And Baghdad — Watching The People Within Those Borders Burn.

And History`s Fingers Never Relax Their Grip, Never Leave Us Unmolested, Can Touch Us Even When We Would Never Imagine Their Presence.

At The End Of The Day, Osama Bin Laden's Interest Is Not Washington And New York, It's The Middle East. He Wants Saudi Arabia. He Wants To Get Rid Of The House Of Saud. There's A Great Deal Of Resentment, Even Inside The Royal Family, At The Continued Military Presence Of The United States There.

When You Have A Crime Against Humanity That Is So Awesome In Scale And Death, It Is More Than Permissible To Look Around And Say, Who Recently Has Been Declaring War On The United States? Of Course, The Compass Points Straight To Bin Laden.