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...actions. In his speech before Congress on Sept. 20, he clearly identified the evilness of radical Islamic terrorism by comparing it to fascism and Nazism. Then—just as Reagan predicted the repressive, totalitarian Soviet government was destined for the “ash heap of history??—Bush vowed that murderous terror organizations would end up “in history??s unmarked grave of discarded lies.” He distinctly laid out the moral and practical purposes of our retaliation against these vicious factions...
While Wal-Mart may be selling out of cute little American flags, a $40 billion appropriations bill was rushed through Congress with little objection, and the Justice Department has arrested scores of people in one of the most extensive investigation in FBI history??some for minor traffic violations. Yet even some of the most trenchant of Bush’s opponents announced that they “stand behind the president.” In the week following the attacks, Congress seemed ready to rubber stamp anything the president asked them to, no matter how costly or ridiculous...
...University of New Hampshire, Ulrich penned “Vertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial Literature, 1668-1735,” which appeared in American Quarterly. Journalist Kay Mills later included the piece in an anthology, and the quote (in actuality, “Well-behaved women seldom make history??) found its way into the mainstream. The original essay focused on those people that Cotton Mather called “the hidden ones” —women who “prayed secretly, read the Bible through at least once a year, and went to hear...
...sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions—by abandoning every value except the will to power—they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends—in history??s unmarked grave of discarded lies...
...these sources were all that many of the students knew of hundreds of years of Chinese history??they were certainly all I knew—what was the use of calling them “biased”? So officials may have preferred a powerful bureaucracy; did that disprove their contention that the war was the Emperor’s fault? Without additional sources to compare these to, without the ability to use them constructively in forming historical judgment, the charge of bias was no more than what Isaiah Berlin termed a memento mori, an expression of human...