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...service of peace and solidarity came just two days after the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil...
...fires are finally extinguished and the survivors are pulled from the ash piles where the World Trade Center once stood, we must confront the terrible reality that an act of war has been committed on American soil. When the last comparable atrocity came screaming out of the sky over Pearl Harbor, the United States responded with a political and military campaign that resulted in nothing less than the destruction of the system that produced the attack. Surely a response of equal gravity is needed today: we must combat the threat of terrorism and do whatever is necessary to safeguard...
...possess clear and irrefutable evidence, in our best judgment and in that of our allies, that a nation is sheltering those who have planned the terrorist attacks and who are now planning others, the use of allied military force is justified if necessary to protect U.S. soil...
Bush spoke Wednesday about punishing not just those involved in the attacks, but also the countries who tolerated the presence of terrorists on their soil. The unstated reference was to Afghanistan. Already the voices in Congress have been retributive and angry. Rep. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) said on Wednesday that the U.S. should simply, “bomb the hell out of [Afghanistan...
...financial markets, perception is reality; confidence in the benchmarks of the U.S. economy made those benchmarks strong, and even more attractive. But when the news of the terrorist attack on U.S. soil spread around the world, it triggered nearly a 2 percent slide against the once-beleaguered euro in world markets - and Muscovites lined up at currency exchange points to trade their once-almighty dollars for, well, rubles...