– November 2, 2001 “The lamps are going out all over Europe. They will not be lit again in our lifetimes,” said Sir Edward Grey, as he watched the lamps being lit in St. James Park, the evening of August 3, 1914. At noon, the foreign minister had persuaded Parliament …
To make the Islamic world hate America, the Taliban may poison food packages the U.S. air-drops to Afghan children. So the Pentagon warned last week. After anthrax, food terror may be the next weapon unleashed. Congress is worried. But if food terror comes to America, it will not be the …
– October 26, 2001 In June 13, 1942, eight trained saboteurs paddled ashore on rafts from Nazi submarines in Florida and Long Island. Carrying fake IDs, explosives and $175,000 in cash, Hitler’s agents had come on a mission: Blend into American society and blow up U.S. factories. On Long Island, …
– October 23, 2001 Neither the Taliban, nor al-Qaida, nor bin Laden is in the bag yet, but the war drums have already begun beating for phase II. If the war hawks have their way, Iraq is next on the target list. Three weeks ago, President Bush was warned in …
– October 23, 2001 FDR “lied us into war because he did not have the political courage to lead us into it,” Rep. Clare Luce blurted out in 1944. The target of Luce’s accusation was a president who by then had entered the pantheon alongside Lincoln and Washington. FDR’s courtiers …
– October 20, 2001 “Israel controls the Senate,” said J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, in 1973. “We should be more concerned about the United States’ interests.” That nothing has changed was evident this weekend. Secretary of State Powell received a letter, instigated by the Israeli lobby …
– October 19, 2001 In September, 1929, “the Roaring Twenties,†“the Era of Wonderful Nonsense,†of sex, booze, and jazz, ended with the stock market crash that began the Great Depression. There followed the “low dishonest decade†of poet W.H. Auden’s depiction, as Western statesmen sought to appease their way …
– October 17, 2001 A month after the massacres, and the ugly scenes of Arabs and Moslems cheering the wounding of America, millions are still asking the question: What did we do that they should hate us so? Last week, the president professed himself “amazed” to “see that in some …
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