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...classic Woody Allen way, nutso with neuroses, but anxious in the way of being truly scared. Maureen Dowd told us in the Times last week that Boomers everywhere, still worried about Numero Uno above all else, are now busily loading up on gas masks and all manner of anti-toxin. I don't see it, not in my experience. But I do see anxiety that wasn't there three weeks ago. The new normal has new rules about what's possible. About what's next...
...Laden remains the biggest suspect. His organization's operations manual recommends that terrorists adopt the dress and manner of their host country, as most of the 19 hijackers did. And his top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahri, is said to have the operational experience to plot something of the scale of Sept. 11. Al-Zawahri leads the Egyptian al-Jihad, the group responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981; a federal court in New York indicted al-Zawahri in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings...
...government could have implemented the necessary policies for winning those previous conflicts? Moreover, our military action against the al-Queda terrorist organization will most likely not be a conventional war, but rather a covert one. And when special forces are used, or conventional ones are applied in a covert manner, the American public does not have a need—or the right—to know. Those forces survive and succeed by being secretive; they fail by their being uncovered...
...disagree because, in this case, justice simply cannot be achieved in such a manner. Though I normally consider myself a pacifist, last week’s massacre of innocent civilians, coupled with the defiance of the backwards Taliban regime of Afghanistan, merits the use of force. Force is the only way to stop terrorism from occurring again; force is the only way to respond to Al Qaeda, the ultra-radical faction of Islam that has vowed to “kill any Americans.” Such a violent group, capable of committing the horrible atrocities we witnessed last Tuesday...
...Good alleges that the manner in which his client was treated was far from usual...