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America's battle plan for the second front was written 137 years ago. When Abraham Lincoln spoke at his second Inaugural, he implored Americans to "bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan." Few nations are as wounded as Afghanistan; even fewer have so many pitiable widows and orphans. If it is true (and it is) that U.S. policy over the past 20 years is not the main or even proximate cause of such suffering, it is also true that America is the richest nation...
...Abraham Lincoln also faced such a war. Congress was not in session when he took office, so he acted unilaterally at first, waging war and even suspending habeas corpus in places. But he then summoned Congress and asked for laws blessing his actions. Congress largely obliged. Lincoln also authorized various military trials, but the 1866 Supreme Court held that citizens not charged with war crimes should be tried in regular civilian courts whenever such courts were open...
...this sounds like bravado. But so did bin Laden's anti-American rants before Sept. 11. Al-Qaeda has agents in dozens of countries, including the U.S. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, to cite just three wartime American leaders, bent the peacetime structure of rights to avert national disaster. President Bush is right to follow their example. As Justice Robert Jackson said, the Constitution is not a suicide pact...
...Thanksgiving is not celebrated in Canada,” Matt R. Lincoln ’03 from Ontario said, “Christmas is so close and I just didn’t want to bother...
...approach had largely kept him out of the limelight in the U.S.--he is much better known in his native England--but American audiences were starting to catch up with him even before the MacArthur-related publicity afterburner kicked in. His Rachmaninoff performance at Lincoln Center has been rescheduled for Jan. 8, and one of his songs (he composes too) will be premiered at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art on Saturday...