Give War a Chance
by P. J. O’Rourke
Reporting on the 1991 Gulf War for Rolling Stone and the fall of the Soviet Union gave P.J. O’Rourke the chance to write a book about ‘evil’. The book opens with his coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall, where an East German border guard asking for a souvenir brings him to tears. “I really didn’t understand before that moment, I didn’t realize until just then—we won. The Free World won the Cold War.”
