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...OK, let's think again. The ID has been proposed as a way of preventing what happened on September 11. Of the 19 hijackers, only two were in this country illegally. Would the others have attracted police attention if they had to apply for some kind of national identity card, which required valid visas, pictures, fingerprints? Perhaps. Would such ID documents be helpful in tracking down the terrorists? Probably...
...OK, then, let's try theory 2: that al-Qaeda might target the media to scare America's opinion makers and weaken our resolve for war. It's as plausible a strategy as any. It's also almost certain not only to fail but to backfire. For it to work, you have to assume that the media will support the war to the extent that its members personally feel safe from terrorism. In fact, exactly the opposite is true. The Sept. 11 attacks hit New York and Washington, killing thousands in exactly the cities where the most powerful journalists...
...every Dell and Cisco, these days, there is a Sun and an AMD, issuing glum earnings outlooks and quietly smothering the newborn tech optimism in its cradle. And the NASDAQ that had posted decent gains Thursday on the it's-gonna-be-OK news from America's bellwether PC producer and router-maker quickly crumbled, shedding its gains dolefully into Friday afternoon. Taken together with job cuts soaring to ten-year highs last month (and that's just the barest taste of the post-disaster economy - the hold at 4.9 percent unemployment for September is the ultimate in lagging indicators...
...OK, maybe that?s an exaggeration. O?Neill, the current Treasury secretary, is still on the job. He was at the New York Stock Exchange the Monday after the attacks to ring the markets? reopening bell, and Wednesday it was O?Neill who met with business leaders in New York to discuss the possibility of business-targeted stimuli...
...possibility you want to put in the minds of a crowd gathered at one of the nation?s busiest airports to hear the president tell them it?s safe to fly again. But a possibility nonetheless. In the hours after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush did give the OK to down any commercial planes that imperiled Washington, and for a while, news reports had it that the plane that went down near Pittsburgh that day had been shot out of the sky by the Air Force. (It turned out to be the efforts of passengers that brought the plane down...