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...attacks on America were an attack on the world, but so are any attacks motivated by venom and hate, regardless of location, regardless of their scale. If America is to fight this war in the name of justice then it must be willing to defend justice when American soil is not directly under siege, when the victims of terror are not investment bankers and business travels and military personnel, but the unclothed, the unfed and the unknown. And if America is to call on the peoples of the world to act in our defense then it must be willing...
...armed guards, the relentless searching of carry-on baggage, the new and powerful x-ray machines that will slice and dice baggage onscreen, the armed sky marshals ready to drop any prospective terrorist in their tracks. Nor will it be the pilots armed with hollow point bullets ready to defend the sanctum of the cockpit, or any other high-tech or high-force solution. Rather, the most intimidating obstacle in a hijacker’s mind will be the tens or hundreds of passengers who will believe the worst of their imaginations. The hijackers on the 11th played...
...many a Harvard intellectual this idea is probably seems so unfathomable as not to be worthy of their “enlightened” discourse. To them, America’s failure to adequately defend Bosnia in the early 1990s demonstrates our religious bias against Muslims, while the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia to protect the Kosovar Muslims is a display of U.S. attempts at hegemony. The U.S.-imposed sanctions on Iraq are responsible for 1.5 million children’s deaths, while Saddam Hussein is absolved of responsibility for delaying the implementation of the oil-for-food program for more...
...honest, I don’t know how to answer these questions; I’m not sure how best to defend the time I spend learning about old music rather than comforting the afflicted. But there is something that makes me hesitant to close the universities and to send the students out into the fields...
...whose presence we have already felt. Now, for the first time in a generation, we must accept the fact that there are times when victory comes at a cost. But it is difficult indeed to imagine that the cost will be dearer than the ideals we fight to defend...