First off … I must say that I just watched the best tennis match of my lifetime. And that New Jersey has suddenly turned into a steam room.
Stop #1: Pakistan (today), where the Bush Administration called off a 2005 raid that would have captured members of the al-Qaeda leadership in that nation’s lawless frontier provinces and the site of a hostage crisis at the city’s largest radical mosque that seems poised to end in a Waco-style inferno.
Stop #2: Russia (today), where Nashi continues to look more and more like Hitler Youth and the Kremlin’s tactics indicate that the country is capitalist in name only.
Stop #3: America, circa 1940, in a profile of our nation’s shameful treatment of those who fled Nazi-occupied Europe during the beginnings of the Holocaust.
Stop #4: America, circa 1967, and a look back at the race riot that occurred in Newark forty years ago this month, which killed 23 and wounded more than 700.
Stop #5: America, circa 2007, and the absurdity of the Jose Padilla trial, where after holding a U.S. citizen without charge for four years (claiming he would wreak nuclear destruction upon us), it appears the best case that could be made upon actually indicting him was a series of speculation and innuendo.
