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I can remember when I was a bit of an ETA fan myself. It was in 1973, when a group of Basque militants assassinated Adm. Carrero Blanco. The admiral w...more

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As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies in broad daylight by the most re...more

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The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the Unite...more

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George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-wh...more

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Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings, I felt something that I couldn’t analyze at first...more

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Some lurid things have been said about me—that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosexual and so forth—that I leave to others to decide ...more

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The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to ...more

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There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.

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Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Th...more

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During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his behavior to women, pathological ...more

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British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describ...more

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Americanism in all its forms seemed to be trashy and wasteful and crude, even brutal. There was a metaphor ready to hand in my native Hampshire. Until...more

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There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which I do...more

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How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

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As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the con...more