Found this quote which I thought was appropriate to the highly charged
emotional atmosphere regarding the tragedies on-going:

"As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then
their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to
destroy."  Christopher Dawson, Judgment of Nations (1942)

Claire McCullough

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sbenkert
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 9:20 AM
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Subject: [UTCSTAFF] NPR retraction


Since so many have taken offense at my "shot" of caller based talk radio I
have decided to change my ways and apologize. NPR and CNN are just too
biased
in their reporting and I should realize that these talk show could survive
without controversy and over reaction. Further, my buddy Bob at work is
infinitely more informed than say....Wolf Blitzer. His conflation of
educational issues down to the point of 'kids need more beatins.. teachers
are
over paid baby sitters...scores are fallin (though he never knows what
scores
he is referring to and yes these are actual comments heard over our very own
CITADEL [though not neccessarily heard from Bob]). Listening to an hour of
political broadcast where some person (who obviously was not paying
attention
in 9th grade earth science) is able to go on and on about why we should just
cut all the trees down instead of letting them burn should be my news
mainstay.

Anyone listening to news and not opinions would know that the US is not
planning to bomb any body back to the stoneage and is perfectly aware that
the
Afghans are not responsible. Further, they would know that even our allies
have not written a blank check and will protest should we not go specificly
after those responsible (either through action or harboring [which would in
some cases include leadership). But of course, I should switch channels and
listen to the local call in so I can realize that the answer is simple and
we
should just get rid of all these people (substitute the word people for any
slang term flying around these days) and "drop some damned bombs."
Information
and objectivity at its finest.

stuart