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It was a good week to be a bad guy. The U.S. went into high alert mode, at least briefly, after warnings from the FBI that attacks from al-Qaeda or some other malevolent group could hit banks and apartment buildings. The New York City Police Department stepped up security...
Yet, every so often, when the hurdles have been leaped, the bridges crossed, and the red tape cut all the way through, change—for better or worse—becomes as simple as a vote, a raising of hands, a counting of yeas and nays. Such was the...
Saddam's "Republic of Fear"--as Iraqi exile Kanan Makiya dubbed Iraq in the title of his 1989 book--looks remarkably tame these days. You can fly into Baghdad's Saddam International Airport on one of the embargo-busting planes from Jordan or Syria or Lebanon that make regular runs...
But the horrors on the front line find an equal in the nightmare now unfolding inside the Maoist heartland. Since November, the Maoists have instituted a systematic "purification" campaign: to reduce their territory to chaos and rubble and eliminate all opposition. As well as crippling and killing government supporters, they...
Don't worry: Waller has not burned his Bridges. His gift is what it is: he writes about tough men and tough women with tough rows to hoe, characters just human enough to believe in and just godlike enough to fantasize about. And credit where credit is due, it works...