2002 may be remembered as the year between two wars, one that seemed over and another about to begin.
Ring out Afghanistan, ring in Iraq: Americans who had been absorbed in their own prosperity only a few years ago continued their crash course in the anxiety of global politics.
While masters of the corporate universe slunk off the national stage, some in handcuffs, Saddam Hussein was hauled back onto it, and everyone wanted to know whether war in Iraq was really going to happen, and when, and then what?
