Carod hablando con Gabilondo, pedía "a quien tenga poder de decisión que hable con los terroristas y acabe con el terror". Citaba al Obispo Des Montutu, de Sudáfrica,-"la paz se hace con el enemigo". Carod decía que no hay proyecto político que pueda fundarse en cadaveres y que la violencia no lleva a ninguna parte y que no entendía como podía recurrirse a la violencia. Sin embargo, él ofrece la explicación. Se ejerce la violencia para obligar a gente bien intencionada como él a negociar. Y es un chantaje porque se empuja con la violencia a negociar aquello que no puede conseguirse por medios democráticos.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
May 30, 2004
THE PUBLIC EDITOR; Weapons of Mass Destruction? Or Mass Distraction?
By DANIEL OKRENT
FROM the moment this office opened for business last December, I felt I could not write about what had been published in the paper before my arrival. Once I stepped into the past, I reasoned, I might never find my way back to the present.
Early this month, though, convinced that my territory includes what doesn't appear in the paper as well as what does, I began to look into a question arising from the past that weighs heavily on the present: Why had The Times failed to revisit its own coverage of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? To anyone who read the paper between September 2002 and June 2003, the impression that Saddam Hussein possessed, or was acquiring, a frightening arsenal of W.M.D. seemed unmistakable. Except, of course, it appears to have been mistaken. On Tuesday, May 18, I told executive editor Bill Keller I would be writing today about The ...
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