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I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.'

— Robert Fisk The Great War for Civilization (2005)

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

The Great War for Civilization (2005)

Now let's be fair. College staff have every right to take their own protection against America's notoriously inaccurate "smart" bombs.

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.

The Great War for Civilization (2005)

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

The Great War for Civilization (2005)

Yesterday, with an inevitability born of the utterly false promise that the bloodbath in Iraq is yielding dividends, we were supposed to believe that the death of Zarqawi was a famous victory.

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