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Last week, when London's transit system was wracked by four bombs, New York and other U.S. cities responded again with a mighty show of force. The Coast Guard escorted Staten Island ferryboats. The chief of the New York City police department promised there would be an officer on every rush hour subway train "for the foreseeable future." In Washington, cops clutching MP5 submachine guns strode through subway cars, and Capitol police searched tour buses...
...deeply pious Puritan clergyman who believed that civil authorities had no business enforcing religious views. (He also thought the British Crown had no power to grant to settlers land that belonged to Indians.) After his views got him banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, Williams founded Rhode Island as a haven of toleration and freethinking. Gaustad's timely little book reminds us that those are the enduring foundations of American civilization...
...really big kitchen island, made of beautiful wood, where you can cook and get dirty...
Stoicism? Sure. It's a characteristic of an island where weather is a verb, where in a tiny, crowded place, patience is necessary. Americans, used to an entire continent of limitless potential, tend to have less need for stoicism. If they hate where they live, they often move somewhere else. If Brits move more than a few hundred miles, they're in the sea. But it seems to me we need both approaches in a war on terrorism. We need to fight back militarily when appropriate. We need boldness and aggression. But we also need to steel ourselves for casualties...
...TURTLE ISLAND IN FIJI...