Forward From the log of War Admiral Norman North, Commander, 7th fleet: I always blamed myself for letting it happen. But in reality, it was society's fault. Society, our society, which had rotted to the very core. I had roused them once before, to face the menace which now threatened to utterly wipe us out as a free society. But when a chance came for peace, any chance, no matter how unrealistic, no matter how risky, they grasped it in an unbreakable bear hug, and there was nothing I or anyone could do to separate them from it. For our...