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Every week, TIME writers and editors chat on AOL about issues in the news. This week, we'll be talking about the war, the hunt for Osama bin Laden and airline safety...
While that effort is easy to caricature, it's hard to refute. The President's first job may be to send troops to capture Osama bin Laden, but his second--if we're not all going to find ourselves up the economic creek--is to send vacationers to Florida and diners to three-star restaurants...
...phone rang. "I'll be there right away, Sir," said Cheney, leaving for the Oval Office without a word. "What are we, chopped liver?" joked one of his abandoned aides. When Bush rewrote a portion of his Sept. 20 address to Congress, re-framing the Administration's position on Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, he made sure an aide called Cheney to run it by him. More often than not, the last question Bush asks before making a decision is, "What do you think, Dick...
...best hope for finding and stopping Osama bin Laden, Donald Rumsfeld has said, is "a scrap of information." But it remains to be seen whether government officials would know how to translate that scrap. In the days following the attacks, the FBI appealed to speakers of Arabic and Afghan languages to sign up for its $27-to-$38-per-hour translator gigs. One reason for the shortage? The dearth of top-notch, well-funded Arabic departments at U.S. colleges...
...wonders how, in the 21st century, the Muslim world could have produced an Osama bin Laden. In the centuries when Islam forged civilizations, men of wealth created pious foundations supporting universities and hospitals, and princes competed with one another to patronize scientists, philosophers and men of letters. The greatest of scientists and philosophers of the medieval age, ibn Sina, was a product of that system. But bin Laden uses his personal fortune to sponsor terror and murder, not learning or creativity, and to wreak destruction rather than promote creation...