And when Saddam came to power...
...who else supported him?
Who looked to him as a bulwark against Iran Ascendent?
I'm a New Yorker by birth, Matt. People I know and love live in the City. You will never hear me say that the United States deserved what happened on Sept. 11. We can't reverse it and we can't repair it. We can only rebuild and mourn, and try to make sure it never happens again.
But we will never ever make it stop if we only focus on that one date and don't step back to look at the bigger picture.