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The hour of the furnaces

On Tuesday morning, shortly after the terror attack, CNN featured the thick voice of Henry Kissinger, who decried the effrontery of a foreign assault on our soil. Thirty-six hours earlier, the same Doctor K. had been targeted by CBS’s 60 Minutes for his now undeniable role in the CIA assassination of the Chilean army’s commander in chief in 1970. When it comes to U.S. foreign policy, as they say, dissent ends at the water’s edge. And when it comes to moments of national emergency, it seems, dissent ends just short of the war criminal’s dock.

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