Trump's boat strikes: the war that isn't a war

A century of futility

Cargo on a dock in the Bahamas bound for the “parched American throat,” (1921 photo by Edward Jewitt Wheeler of the Literary Digest.)

The constitutional amendment that banned the making and selling of “intoxicating liquors” in the United States beginning in 1920 had an unintended side-effect: It completely transformed two islands in the Atlantic.

Nassau, …