QUOTE: Norm on journalistic anti-Americanism:
"Even-handed, don't you see? Those who take, and threaten to kill, or indeed sometimes do kill, hostages are downright imprudent; they make it harder for Western journalists to damn the US occupation, which the hostage-takers are opposing. No thought that in what the latter do there might be any issue of criminality, or even anything to damn: such as... well, hostage-taking; or obstructing the rebuilding of Iraq's infrastructure. Readers with long memories will be able to recall a time when the fact that this wasn't happening fast enough was the fault of the Coalition and loudly trumpeted for being so. Some of you may also be able to recall Jonathan Steele's reaction to the lynchings in Falluja, earlier on in the sequence of events now unfolding there."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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