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On this day in alternate history: September 11, 2001
Twenty-five years ago today, Condoleezza Rice, then-National Security Adviser for President Bush, delivered the Rostov Lecture at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. In that speech, Rice laid out the defining vision of President Bush’s foreign policy: a robust missile defense system. Rice foreshadowed her speech on Meet the Press two days earlier,…
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, II
Two Weeks as President-designate In the days after Al Gore’s assassination, Joe Lieberman was tasked with assembling an administration of his own. Who would be in his cabinet? By the time Gore was assassinated, he had yet to formally announce any of his cabinet picks, though many were chosen and some publicly confirmed in the…
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, I
Pickett’s Charge Robert Pickett was angry. His hands were firm at 10 and 2, his knuckles white, as he neared his destination: Washington, DC. A reporter on the radio read the day’s headlines: Governor George W. Bush, who conceded the presidential election yesterday, urged supporters to remain peaceful during tomorrow’s counting of the electoral votes…
