A couple of weeks back I was listening to Howard Stern’s morning radio show and enjoying his conversation with an improbable guest – not a stripper or porn star, but the great octogenarian singer Tony Bennett.  They talked about Bennett’s colorful career, his friendships with people like Frank Sinatra (who called him the best singer of all), his secrets of longevity, his memories of childhood.  Then, in inimitable Stern fashion, the host began asking Bennett about things hardly anybody has ever thought to ask him about.  And the next thing you knew, a few million radio listeners were learning that the beloved crooner wasn’t sure who the bad guys were on 9/11.  “Who are the terrorists,” he asked in that famous smoky voice, “us or them?”  He described the attack on the Twin Towers as revenge – which he seemed to suggest was justifiable – for actions which the United States, in the past, had taken against “them.”  To be sure, Bennett was vague about who “they” were.
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