Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

'If you bomb our cities, we will bomb yours.

President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who "liberated" them.

Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?

In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?