by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 17, 2003

“May your enemies live in interesting times,” runs the old Chinese saying. Our times become more interesting by the day.

On the South Capitol Street Bridge here sits an Avenger anti-aircraft missile battery prepared to shoot down any private plane or commercial airliner that appears about to crash into the Capitol.

Area residents are being urged to buy three days of dry food and bottled water, and duct tape to seal off one room, to survive a chemical, biological or radiological (”dirty bomb”) attack on D.C.