 One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life. |
| The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me. |
| I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China. |
| I've been shot at on numerous occasions. |
| I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions. |
| I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn't seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests. |
| For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army. |
