NBC’s Jane Arraf appeared on Friday’s Nightly News to talk about daily life in Iraq. She made some interesting remarks:
| “I’ll tell you what I think is a piece of good news that’s out there every day that’s really hard for us to get at. And it’s a picture I try to keep in my mind when things get really horrible, it is, when you wake up early in the morning, if you can be out on the streets, which we can’t anymore, the sun shining, there are children walking to school, there are girls and boys, there are Iraqi girls who are walking to school, and it’s that wonderful sign of resilience that is the fabric, the background of life there. Now, to go out and do that story, we would not only be putting ourselves in danger and our local people in danger, we’d probably be putting those children in danger because that is the nature of television. I worked under Saddam Hussein in Saddam’s Iraq, and this is harder now than it ever was then.” |
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