Faith is about inverting the worlds values
"Having spent 20 years outside the US in societies that are being rent apart by violence I don't quite share America's mania for hope. When I covered the war in El Salvador and the war in the former Yugoslavia, it was standard practice for the Salvadoran military or in the case of the former Yugoslavian Serbian para-military to go in to villages and carry out massacres. And then they would block the roads. So both in El Salvador and in Bosnia we had to walk in - in the case of Yugoslavia with our satellite phones, the Serbs would often have snipers firing on us because they didn't want the massacre to be reported - and it was the ability to document the atrocity, to give the victims names, on the front page of the New York Times often, that was victory enough. That was Hope enough. It didn't mean that I wouldn't get up a few days later and do the same thing again. And we did this at tremendous risk. In Sarajevo alone 5 foreign journalists were killed and dozen...