"It's called courage"

"He had made many friends in Iraq, and was afraid for them if the religious fundamentalists were given the country to run under shari'a. You may dismiss that as naive, simplistic, foolish, but I say to you, as you sit safely in your ivory tower in Michigan with nothing threatening your comfy, tenured existence, that you should be ashamed at the depths to which you have sunk by libeling Steven and Nour. They were on the front lines, risking all, in an attempt to call attention to the growing storm threatening to overwhelm a fragile and fledgling experiment in democracy, trying to get the world to see that all was not right in Iraq."
Murdoc online

Steven's wife seems to agree. He saw it coming and was killed for reporting it, we see it also in this Draft. We need not make excuses, we should recognize our mistakes, admit our failure, and move forward to fix the situation. Pretending that there is not an elephant sitting in your living room, dose not change the fact that there is an elephant sitting in your living room
(H/T) Jason