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...York Stock Exchange, virtually around the corner from where the World Trade Center once stood, was open for business yesterday, and despite a few more barricades and security guards and a giant flag that was draped across its front, there were few signs reflecting the tragedy that occurred just one year ago today...
...they were scared to fly. People in Spencer, Iowa, began locking their doors, taking their keys out of their cars. Wal-Mart, which can race blankets, batteries and bottled water to any region hit by a hurricane or fire, ran out of the one thing everyone suddenly needed: a flag. Soon it was selling Little Patriots diapers. Spangle your baby's fanny with stars...
...tempting to believe that Bush rose to the occasion last September because flag and country demanded it. But with the passage of a year, and a chance to watch the President in action at home and overseas, it's harder to get away from the idea that Bush didn't rise to meet history but that history fell to meet him. In one horrifying two-hour period, the world shuddered and conformed to his way of thinking: there was good and there was evil, and it wasn't hard to tell the difference. If Bush didn't know much about...
...confidence in this process has grown with his success in Afghanistan. He took to heart the lesson that he should trust his moral sense and have faith in what a former Clinton aide, not without admiration, calls "rising dominoes"--the sense that if Bush unfurls a big bright flag and marches toward the mountains, the world will follow...
Advocates of the military and all its actions are quick to play the patriotism card and invoke the tragedies of last Sept. 11. But true patriotism is not about flag-waving and blind support of the military. Patriotism means standing for the principles this country is supposed to stand for—equal opportunities, civil liberties and freedom to dissent from the ruling government...