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Thank you, Lance Morrow, for your thoughtful essay "The Case for Rage and Retribution" [SPECIAL ISSUE]. You wrote, "The worst times, as we see, separate the civilized of the world from the uncivilized." But what defines civilization if not the seeking of peace and justice in light of violence and intolerance and hate? Murderers and criminals should be made to pay, and those who seek to terrorize should be stopped. I agree that now is the time for Americans to show what we are made of, to be at our best. But our best is not rage and retribution...
...Morrow's essay was the best thing anyone had to say during the long week following the attacks. I hope it helps us all sober up for what lies ahead. DOUG TUETING Edina, Minn...
...Lance Morrow's polemic was flip, superficial and unhelpful in this time of crisis. What is nourishing about rage? What is inappropriate about healing? Is hatred wholesome and intelligent? Is "self-confident relentlessness" a discipline Americans need to learn? Following this logic, one would have to conclude that terrorists and those who incite them are spiritually nourished and intelligent and that their "self-confident relentlessness" is something to aspire to. People with less emotional and more thoughtful approaches to crises are not "unfit for decent company," as Morrow puts it; rather, they are the real patriots who truly love their...
Thanks, Lance Morrow. Your thoughts needed to be said. I agree with you entirely. RICHARD L. LADY Andersonville, Tenn...
...Morrow misconstrues a vital point. Healing is a very real and necessary thing because it prevents the useless cycle of hatred that he invokes. The anger that he wishes to whip up is the same anger that propelled those planes through the World Trade Center. A society that turns away from hatred does not become self-indulgent and weak. Rather that society provides itself with the ability to bring along all its members without squandering its resources on military battles that cannot solve fundamental problems. Do we need a military response? Yes. Do we need to invoke a jihad...