Sins of the Father
Lionel Beehner reminds us of Washington’s cozy relationship with Iraq during the Reagan era.
Donald Rumsfeld, as special envoy to President Reagan, visited Baghdad twice, in 1983 and in 1984, and met with Saddam Hussein ostensibly to reaffirm American support for Iraq against the Iranians during their eight-year war. According to a March 2005 article by [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Tis certain, greatness, once fallen out with fortune,
Must fall out with men too. What the declined is,
He shall as soon read in the eyes of others
As feel in his own fall.” —Troilus And Cressida, 3.3.75-78
