o-independence movement in East Timor, a long-troubled Roman Catholic enclave in the world’s most populous Muslim country. Instead, Tony Blair and I met with reporters and did two lengthy television interviews with the BBC and CNN supporting the referendum. She smiled and said, “You’re going to finish them, of course. ” The American people had been told for more than a decade that their government was a gluttonous leviathan swallowing their hard-earned tax dollars to no good end.
eness, and rereadingThe Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis, theMeditations of Marcus Aurelius, and several of the most ” So much for the “credible evidence of wrongdoing” standard. ” I asked those who had voted for President Bush and Ross Perot to join me in creating a “re-United States,” May was an interesting month, and valuable for my continuing political education.