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...hard to plan D-day against an enemy with no beaches and no borders, and when wise heads counsel that the most effective counterattack may be the least publicly satisfying kind--the quiet intelligence and financial and psychological warfare that can best "drain the swamp" where the terrorists hide. Would a large-scale attack demonstrate American resolve or play into the hands of those hoping to create a martyr? "Not only do you need the courage of your convictions," Adlai Stevenson once said. "Sometimes you need the courage of your doubts...
...hour news cycle gives Bush nowhere to hide. It amplified his uncertainties in the first hours of the crisis. But it also let everyone hear his perfect pitch in the Washington National Cathedral on Friday, as he evoked "a kinship of grief and a steadfast resolve to prevail against our enemies." His smallest decisions are now freighted with history and symbolism. As aides debated whether he should return to the White House on Tuesday in a customary helicopter or in a more secure motorcade, the President made the call: "We're going back the way we normally go back." This...
...enough. Yassine worries that there will be those who know and respect individuals, but still see Islam as barbaric. The message commnicated to him might be, youre a good Muslim, but everybody else isnt. America is a place to be an individual, Sheila said. Now were being forced to hide under this blanket of ambiguity...
...arrive at the Levinthal-Sidman Jewish Community Center. The irony that a Jewish girl has to hide her religion in Newton, which is largely Jewish itself (much less in a Jewish Community Center) is not lost...
...earth-shaking significance, and losing their weeklong taint of guilt, sporting events (and movies, and non-news television) once again serve as no more than pleasant diversions. That?s a pretty big deal these days, of course: Always a country of escapists, America is desperate for a chance to hide from our own thoughts for a while...