SPIN CYCLE: Tom wallks tall, with a big stick

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Tom AllonBrooklyn DailyWhen I was a college student at Cornell University more than three decades ago, I decided to major in history because I felt it would allow me to understand the roots of so many 20th-century riddles that plagued me.How did the Holocaust happen? Could America have prevented it if it intervened earlier? Why did we care so much about a small Communist country in Southeast Asia that we sent tens of thousands of our young men to die in tho