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 Spectator.org Print Article         Close Window         Copyright © 2002 Spectator.org. All Rights Reserved. Inside Stories of the Transformed Armed Forces By Published 9/2/2003 12:02:00 AM Buy the Book Our response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated strikes. Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.-- George W. Bush, Address to Congress, September 20, 2001 The back cover of The Hunt for Bin Laden, by Robin Moore (Random House, $24.95), shows Moore, an...

Dear Blues Brother: I suppose I've suffered less political ostracism than most. On a professional level, I don't flash a very big light, and I write about politics only about half the time. And I'm too old to care. But being old makes me care a great deal about personal animus. You can point to the big public melters-down, like Maureen Dowd, but they don't interest me much. What matters are stories like the ones on this Free Republic thread , "Lost an Old Friend Today. Politics and the Personal." Thanksgiving has just passed, Christmas is coming up, and I...