Today is the second anniversary of the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center and many Americans will be visited again by the familiar but unwelcome tightness in the stomach, the perceptible acceleration of the pulse. The sound of an airplane passing overhead seems to jump at our ears. People are solemn and subdued. […]

And in those days, a great darkness fell across the land and blackouts were many and the beer in all the taverns did grow warm. The ancient pipeline ruptured and spilled its precious liquid on the sands of the Arizona desert and the lines at gas stations of the southwest grew long and all across […]

There was a long, detailed story in Sunday’s Washington Post about how government weapons experts kept telling the White House there was no evidence of an Iraqi nuclear weapons program, even as the White House was telling the opposite to the rest of the world. What if the situation was reversed? What if experts from […]

On Sunday, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz made the rounds of the political talk shows, making the link between the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden’s Al Quaeda. He said the Islamic fundamentalists who comprise Al Quaeda were outraged in the early 1990s by the presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia, […]