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I am just asking about Bloom because I saw this paragraph in one of the news bits about Woodruff:

Some observers yesterday immediately noted the close friendship between Woodruff and David Bloom, the NBC anchor who died of a pulmonary embolism while covering the opening days of the war in April 2003. Woodruff left his embed to take Bloom's remains home for burial. Both Woodruff's wife, Lee, and Bloom's wife, Melanie, are particularly close friends, and Woodruff has been a surrogate father to Bloom's three children. Woodruff has four children of his own.

If harm were to come to Peter Arnett or Bill Moyers, my reaction would be the same. I'd offer prayers for them and their families. I am not a ghoul and do not in anyway rejoice in tragic brought to other humans.

Maybe because I lost a close family member at one time and know how it feels to grieve the loss of your own blood.

If harm were to come to Peter Arnett or Bill Moyers, my reaction would be the same. I'd offer prayers for them and their families.

That seems to be where many of us part company. Arnett and Moyers have allowed themselves to become mouthpieces for the worst kind of evil many have ever seen in their lifetimes. They are (in Arnett's case, "were") powerful enablers of an irreconcilable death cult intent on killing millions.

I am not a ghoul and do not in anyway rejoice in tragic brought to other humans.

You would for someone you knew to be evil. It's just a matter of degree. You certainly would for Usama bin Laden.

People assign different degrees of evil to different acts. Maybe you reserve your rage for the actual doers of evil. Others apply it to the enablers.

Personally, I still subscribe to the "with us or against us" doctrine. That doesn't mean I'm happy about what happened to Woodruff. It just means I'm not using it as an occasion to forget what ABC News has come to represent.

Of course I wish Bob Woodruff a quick and full recovery. The man has four children. But I also wish him, and his ABC News family, a new perspective on this war we're fighting.

I don't see why that sentiment can't co-exist alongside your well-wishes.