War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit. - Robert Fisk

Now let's be fair. College staff have every right to take their own protection against America's notoriously inaccurate "smart" bombs.

In reality, an American siege and occupation of the city would take weeks, perhaps months, but capture of the airport would allow troop-carrying aircraft to land. Since the city is 27 miles wide, an all-out assault could be an operation of epic proportions.

And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.