CNN, to its credit, is really trying very hard to catch up with Fox News. It is failing miserably in the ratings' war, but not for lack of silliness and subservience to government. Tonight, I heard a report on CNN on the killing of children in Afghanistan (on my satellite radio, not to be confused with my satellite shoe), and the anchor Aaron Brown (who was brought the network from ABC News with great fanfare because his delivery is acutely boring and monotonous) introduced the segment by saying: that these kind of things ALWAYS happen in war, and always have happened. Just like that. If somebody finds the transcript please send to me to post.