Over the course of this year, the centenary of William F. Buckley’s birth, we will republish an article by him weekly. This week’s piece, written amidst the wreckage of the attacks on the Twin Towers, argues for the prosecution of a campaign to punish those who orchestrated the attacks.
It is generally acknowledged that if there was consolation after Pearl Harbor, it was that we knew who did it. During those minutes and hours when all of America watched the skyscrapers crumble, a wing of the Pentagon dismembered, New Yorkers by the tens of thousands scrambling for life while hundreds of thousands ached for knowledge of kin, there was the question incessantly posed:
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