Death of an Idealist

[kentuck]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1723967,00.html

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Steven Vincent believed Iraqis wanted to live the American dream. His mistake cost him his life, reports Tony Allen-Mills
After 10 years scratching a modest living as a freelance journalist specialising in contemporary art, Steven Vincent was tiring of the incestuous Manhattan gallery scene. In his mid-forties, he felt he should be doing something else with his life — perhaps something more topical, more relevant. He just wasn’t sure what.

Then, like so many other New Yorkers, he awoke on September 11, 2001 to television images of the World Trade Center on fire. He rushed to the roof of his shabby apartment building on Manhattan’s lower east side.

He watched as a second plane flew into the north tower. He was close enough to see people on fire jumping out of windows. In those searing moments, according to his wife, “he turned into a war correspondent”.

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[Orangeone]

1. Idealist?

I heard an interview that he gave just before he died, and I was really suprised to find out that he was a rightwing creep.

He was totally for the war. He believed that Saddam had something to do with 9/11. He also stated that the Iraqi people "don't take responsibility for anything" and that they should be grateful that the US got rid of Saddam. He sort of reminded me of Christopher Hitchens.

Nobody likes to say negative things about the dead but it doesn't change the fact that he was a jerk.