ABC Co-Anchor Injured By IED

ABC co-anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman, Doug Vogt, have been seriously injured by an IED in Iraq. ABC reports that Woodrum sustained a head injury from shrapnel.

Shortly before the attack, the two transferred from an armored Humvee to an Iraqi military vehicle thought to be a softer target. They were wearing body armor, helmets and ballistic glasses.

It was a bad day in Iraq. Craziness in the Saddam trial, bombs outside Christian churches, and a high-profile American reporter seriously injured.

All history swings on pendulums, however, and no movement lasts forever. The Baathists and Sunni terrorists are on a pendulum arc that will be overwhelmed by the much larger societal pendulum that is swinging away from repression and toward freedom.

The Iraqis know this and are showing stout hearts and growing revulsion with the rot that is wracking their land. Will ABC have that perspective? Doubtful.