"Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams…" ~ Shakespeare, Richard III Not so long ago — perhaps 2 or 3 years — the cable TV operator where I live broadcast a movie on one of its home cinema channels in which American political and military men were debating around a table and waving sticks at maps in a dramatic discussion of how and when to drop a nuclear bomb on Baghdad. I only caught a part of this frightening but unmemorable movie and so, regrettably, I do not know its name, although its plot sounds … Continue reading Triumph of the Federal Will