June 2005

by Alexander Cockburn

Whatever sour emotions I entertained while reading accounts of the funeral of Marla Ruzicka had nothing really to do with the death on April 16 of a brave young woman in Baghdad. On many accounts, and I have had a detailed conversation with a close friend of Marla's whose judgment I respect, she was an idealistic person whose prime political flaw seems to have been the very forgivable one of naivety.