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bgproperties="fixed" background="2cb68b23.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#0099FF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Stromata</b></I></FONT>    <A NAME="_______home"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A> |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Stromata"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id231.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Table of Contents"><U>Table of Contents</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Religion"><U>Religion</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="History"><U>History</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Literature"><U>Literature</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Science Fiction"><U>Science Fiction</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wargaming"><U>Wargaming</U></A>   |   <B>Public Policy</b>   |   <A HREF="id53.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photo Album"><U>Photo Album</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Stories and 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WIDTH="496"><div> <I><B>People understand, I think, that however much Americans might wish to leave the world alone, the world will not leave America alone.  Great wealth and great success generate great envy and great hatred.  And America's high ideals, if clutched jealously to America's chest, while those abroad who believe in them are hunted down and slaughtered without help, will whither and die.  Idealism, like terrorism, has - can have - no borders.</b></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>John Derbyshire, </b><I><B>National Review </b></I><I><B>Online</b></I><B>, September 12, 2001</b></div> <div>  <A NAME="file_911"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></b></I></div> <div> <B>File 911</b></div> <div> Since the outbreak of the war, I have been collecting links to interesting and important articles on its causes and effects. In addition, the following sites contain much useful material:</div> <div> The <A HREF="http://September11.archive.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://September11.archive.org/"><U>September 11 Archive</U></A>, commissioned by the Library of Congress, preserves news accounts, Web sites, images and other information about the terrorist attacks and their immediate aftermath. Still in progress, it reportedly containes over five terabytes of data already.</div> <div> The <I>Daily Telegraph</I> has gathered its stories about the war into a convenient day-by-day <A HREF="http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?menuId=1208&menuItemId=-1&view=SUMMARY&grid=P17&targetRule=0" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/m"><U>archive</U></A>.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://watch.windsofchange.net/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://watch.windsofchange.net/"><U>Watch</U></A>, compiled by Swedish journalist Marten Barck, is a collection of annotated links to news stories and commentary about the war, focusing on terrorism as an attack on the open society. <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Highly recommended.</b></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id383.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="File 911: General"><U><B>General News and Commentary</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id338.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="File 911: Why We Fight"><U><B>Why We Fight</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id339.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="File 911: Strategy Tactics"><U><B>Strategy and Tactics</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id340.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="File 911: The Failure of Prevention"><U><B>The Failure of Prevention</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id341.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="File 911: Islam and the War"><U><B>Islam and the War</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id342.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="File 911: Judaism, Israel and the War"><U><B>Judaism, Israel and the War</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id343.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="File 911: The Afghan Campaign"><U><B>The Afghan Campaign</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id344.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="File 911: The European Front"><U><B>The European Front</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id345.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="File 911: The United Nations Handmaiden"><U><B>The United Nations: Handmaiden of Terror</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id346.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="File 911: The Saudi Connection"><U><B>The Saudi Connection</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id347.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="File 911: The Axis of Evil: Iraq"><U><B>The Axis of Evil: Iraq</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id401.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="File 911: The Axis of Evil: Iran"><U><B>The Axis of Evil: Iran</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id402.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="File 911: The Axis of Evil: North Korea"><U><B>The Axis of Evil: North Korea</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id377.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="File 911: The War in South Asia"><U><B>The War in South Asia</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id348.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="File 911: Homeland Security"><U><B>Homeland Security</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id349.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="File 911: Idiotarians"><U><B>Idiotarians</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id350.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="File 911: Enemy Captives and Military Tr"><U><B>Enemy Captives and Military Tribunals</b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id351.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="File 911: Smile the While. . . ."><U><B>Smile the while. . . . (Humor and Satire)</b></U></A></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="ephemerides"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></b></div> <div> <B>Ephemerides</b></div> <div> Jottings, quotations and other notes on important, outrageous or bizarre events, intended more to clarify my own thoughts (or occasionally vent them) that to convince anybody else.</div> <div> <A HREF="id456.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hunt Watch Table of Contents"><U>Hunt Watch</U></A> is a special section devoted to analyzing the <I>Wall Street Journal</I> columns of leftist scribe Al Hunt. I didn't keep it up as well as I should have in 2003 but am resolved to do better in 2004.</div> <div> <A HREF="id282.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: The Enron Mythos"><U>Special Section: The Enron Mythos</U></A> (the Halliburton/Cheney pseudo-scandal; corporate "reform" and the stock market; Worldcom enters the Mythos; the Andersen verdict; stiffing Enron's victims; media bias about media bias; Whom should government "consult"?; the virtues of <I>not</I> diversifying; post-Enron smoke; litigation abuse and the death of Arthur Andersen; due process - what's that?; making auditors more independent; lies in <I>The Wall Street Journal</I>; Paul Krugman, victim of Enroneurosis; Let Lerach do it?; postmodernist campaign reform; sensible voices in the press; more facts omitted in "news" stories; accounting reformers' follies; "solving" the 401(k) non-problem; a distorted picture of Enron's retirement plans; Professor Krugman's change of heart; Enron: poster child for regulation?; the first <I>real</I> Enron scandal; protecting workers from wealth)</div> <div> <A HREF="id462.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ephemerides Table of Contents"><U>Day-by-day comments</U></A> (which is what "ephemerides" means, after all) from September 2001 through June 2004. More recent material is on <A HREF="http://stromata.typepad.com/stromata_blog/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://stromata.typepad.com/stromata_blo"><U>Stromat Blog</U></A>.</div> <div>  <A NAME="my_views_and_you_re_welcome_to_them"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>My Views, and You're Welcome to Them</b></div> <div> <A HREF="id145.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Its a Gray, Gray World"><U>"It's a Gray, Gray World"</U></A>. As life expectancy increases, will men forget how to live? </div> <div> <A HREF="id139.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Surfin Their Lives Away"><U>"Surfin' Their Lives Away"</U></A>. Is the Internet really the Great Hope for educating the next generation?</div> <div> <A HREF="id205.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Legitimacy and the Democrats"><U>"Legitimacy and the Democrats"</U></A>. Even in the midst of war, some important Democrats treat George W. Bush as a usurper. What does that bode for our country's long-term prospects?</div> <div> <A HREF="id241.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Only Two Ways to Fix Social Security"><U>"The Only Two Ways to Fix Social Security"</U></A>. This piece addresses the Clinton Administration's 1999 proposals, but the discussion of the nature of Social Security's long-term problems may still be of interest.</div> <div> <A HREF="id220.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Crusades: Right and Wrong"><U>"The Crusades: Right and Wrong"</U></A>. Reflections on a millennium-old war that has gotten back into the headlines.</div> <div> <A HREF="id463.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Victims of George W. Bush"><U>"The Victims of George W. Bush"</U></A>. Fiction, sort of.</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="the_tory_party_at_yale_university"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>The Tory Party at Yale University</b></div> <div> The closest that I ever came to true political activism was as an undergraduate at Yale, where <I>inter alia</I> I was a founder (and first chairman) of the Yale Political Union's <A HREF="http://www.yale.edu/tory/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.yale.edu/tory/"><U>Tory Party</U></A>. To my continuing astonishment, the Tories remain in existence, still devoted to <A HREF="http://www.criticalmassblog.com/main/2006/5/16/from-yale-tory-chairmans-speech.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.criticalmassblog.com/main/200"><U>conservative ideals and rational debate</U></A>, over thirty-five years later and hold an <A HREF="id209.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tory Party Banquet, 1999"><U>annual banquet</U></A> at Mory's.</div> <div> A fine Tory tradition is singing (in whatever key comes to hand) airs of traditional, patriotic or frivolous import. A few samples are posted here (<A HREF="id286.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tory Songs By Sundry Hands"><U>"Tory Songs By Sundry Hands"</U></A>).</div> <div> Another former Tory chairman, <A HREF="http://www.billsmith.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.billsmith.org/"><U>Bill Smith</U></A>, has posted<A HREF="http://www2.rpa.net/~smith/TORY.HTM" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www2.rpa.net/~smith/TORY.HTM"><U> </U></A><A HREF="http://www2.rpa.net/~smith/TORY.HTM" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www2.rpa.net/~smith/TORY.HTM"><U>photographs</U></A> from the organization's exciting early days, recording the defense of the American flag by a band of Tories during the May 1970 anti-war riots in New Haven.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="#_______home" TITLE="Public Policy"><U><B><Return to Top of Page></b></U></A></div> <div> <B>  <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">var site="sm8Stromata";var g_frames=true;</script> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.2" src="http://sm8.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=sm8Stromata"> </script> <noscript> <a href="http://sm8.sitemeter.com/stats.asp?site=sm8Stromata" target="_top"> <img src="http://sm8.sitemeter.com/meter.asp?site=sm8Stromata" alt="Site Meter" border=0></a> </noscript>    </b></div> </td> </tr></table></body>