Byron raises a point we have to reflect on. The anti-Clinton years on the right were filled with lunatic preoccupations–Mena Airport, the boys on the tracks, pity for David Koresh (one could think Waco was badly bungled without pitying David Koresh), Hillary’s sex life, and on and on. National Review held itself aloof from the worst of this; other (otherwise) respectable conservative venues did not, and beyond the fringes, it was totally whacked. The 1990s-2000s will seem, in retrospect, almost as poisonous as the 1790s-1800s. I can understand, even if I cannot approve of, the spirit of an eye for an eye. It is a particular shame that it continues in wartime (though history shows that wartime breeds vituperation: World War II was an exception).