While I do not doubt that the author has suffered by knowing these horrors and feeling the need to not report them, there is an extremely self-serving, a nauseatingly almost self-congratulatory, odor to this piece. Even the headline stinks.
I share your interpretation and your sentiments. This article is no sort of confession or guilt cleansing. It reads more like an attempt to make the author a sympathetic figure in the horrors visited upon the Iraqi people by this brutal regime. It left no doubt in mind that Eason Jordan not only feels NO guilt but, in fact, considers his actions heroic. I am disgusted and repulsed beyond words.
While I do not doubt that the author has suffered by knowing these horrors and feeling the need to not report them, there is an extremely self-serving, a nauseatingly almost self-congratulatory, odor to this piece. Even the headline stinks.