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Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better. We certainly know what it feels like to watch them explode: this week two years ago we lost for good the sunny sense that our world was safe, that the oceans would protect us, that there were rules even among the hateful against mass slaughter of the innocent. Now a different set of illusions flakes--off about the costs of winning wars and making peace. By the time President Bush asks Congress for more money and the U.N. for more of everything--more peacekeepers and mine clearers and border...
...best. A CNN/TIME poll last week found people worrying more about the economy than terrorism. Yet more than half of all Americans think things are not back to normal and never will be. It has become easy to wonder whether the President has done too little to protect the country or too much. On the one hand, his Attorney General is making speeches in 16 states to defend the Patriot Act because Congress is trying to repeal it, and more than 150 cities and towns have passed resolutions saying they don't like being spied on. On the other hand...
...according to a senior U.S. official. A former Bush Administration official says the Saudis generally insist on knowing everything the Americans know before moving against a suspect. U.S. investigators, he says, sometimes suspect that the Saudis are fishing, trying to ferret out details of U.S. intelligence, or stalling, to protect Saudi individuals from embarrassment. One of the Administration's top counterterrorism officials says the Saudis still appear to be protecting charities associated with the royal family and its friends. He says the bank records of a charity suspected of being an al-Qaeda front mysteriously disappeared. The Americans hope...
Just days before the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Ashcroft vowed that “our final tribute to the dead of Sept. 11 is to fulfill our responsibility to protect...the lives and liberty of those yet to come...
...It’s the wrong way to go about fighting terrorism,” said Somerville, Mass., resident Carl Takei. “We need to protect the country by doing things that are consistent with our national values...