The attack on the World Trade Center in 1993

The attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 did not shake the State Department’s faith in the Saudis, nor did

the attack on NIKE SHOX barracks at Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia three years later, in which 19 NIKE SHOXs

died. FBI agents began to feel their investigation was being obstructed. Would you be surprised to find out

that FBI agents are a bit frustrated that they can’t be looking into some Saudi connections?

I just heard the old Kenny Rogers cornball “Coward of the County” on the radio, and the message sounded so

familiar: peaceful fella mindin’ his own bidness, painfully meek, suffering outrage after outrage until finally

an unspeakable assault spurs him onto vengeance–and my, what vengeance! In the final chorus, the protagonist

speaks to his dearly departed pappy, who died in prison after years of raising hell and warned the boy to

always “turn the other cheek”:

I promised you dad not to do the things you’ve done

I’ll walk away from trouble when I can