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Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States

3/22/2002

Priceless - Most of the time, my focus here is on Tennessee politics and taxes, but sometimes other things catch my eye. One of those things is Victor Davis Hanson's weekly essays in National Review Online are must-reading for anyone who wants to truly understand the war on terrorism and we must and will fight it - and win it. His recent essay, Questions, is a series of rhetorical questions, each more devastating than the last. Two examples:

If nearly two-thirds of the Arabic world believe that Arabs were not involved in September 11, why should any American believe anything that two out of three people from that region say?

Has anyone heard a Muslim in the United States condemn September 11 without employing the word "but?"