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...conflict would give rise to so much spiritual hand wringing. As TIME senior writer Otto Friedrich observed in his meditation on history, The End of the World, solemn predictions of earth's final days have accompanied natural and man-made catastrophes down through the ages, from the sack of Rome to the Nazi Holocaust. This century's military technology has given new power to those primordial fears and illusions, wrote Friedrich in his book. Thus the most chilling uncertainty of the gulf war is whether Saddam, in an act of cynical desperation, might launch a few surviving Scuds armed with...
...proclaimed himself a successor to Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian King who enslaved the Israelites of old. That makes it deceptively easy for prophecy mongers to identify Iraq with Babylon. Somewhat awkwardly, it also undercuts a long- standing Protestant tradition that this symbol of corruption refers to the Church of Rome...
Instead, we should insist on a U.S. foreign policy that supports Israel for Israel's sake--not because of a cost/benefit analysis, but because it's the right thing to do. Jews have been persecuted by Babylonia, by Persia, by ancient Greece, by ancient Rome, by the Ottoman Empire, by Nazi Germany and yes, by its Arab neighbors. The U.S. shut its doors to Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. It has a duty to resist future attempts at the systematic annihilation of this perennially oppressed people...
...single-minded ambition. "He saw himself as a successor to Alexander the Great, and we didn't laugh when he said it," recalls retired General Leroy Suddath, another former roommate. "Norm's favorite battle was Cannae," says Suddath, in which Hannibal in 216 crushed the forces of Rome. "It was the first real war of annihilation, the kind Norman wanted to fight." He desperately wanted to lead his country's forces into a major battle. "We'd talk about these things in the wee hours, and Norman would predict not only that he would lead a major American army into...
...side of completion, however, was Gaudi himself, who told his biographer, "All particularly grandiose churches have taken centuries to complete." Devoutly religious, the aged architect begged for alms when contributions dwindled. Gaudi deliberately sketched only an outline of the final facade. Citing St. Peter's in Rome and cathedrals in Cologne and Reims, he said, "Another generation will collaborate, as is always the case with cathedrals that have facades not only by several authors but also in various styles...