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...from the public coffers. Fair enough. So why did the families of those who died in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing receive just $100,000 in federal aid and charity? Was that terrorist attack any less horrifying than what happened last September? Did the people who died there somehow mean less to their communities, their families...
...lock parts of the city down and break others open, create a makeshift command center and a temporary morgue, find a million pairs of gloves and dust masks and respirators, throw up protections against another attack, tame the mobs that might go looking for vengeance and somehow persuade the rest of the city that it had not just been fatally shot through the heart...
...trauma for us to discover the tenderness, the offscreen, backstage, lowlight kindness he showed to widow after widow, child after child. A man considered incapable of empathy, who could scarcely mutter a word of condolence to the mother of an unarmed man his police force had shot 41 times, somehow knew what to say?and just as important, what not to. Tell me about your son, he would say to a speechless mother, and then he would go quiet, and she would start to talk, and his listening gave her her voice back. In the face of so much agony...
...West about the rise of terrorism linked to religious extremism is that it subverts perhaps our greatest article of faith: our belief in the idea of progress. Because it is our faith in the idea of progress, in the idea that the human race is somehow evolving, that allows us to view nationalism, religion, and moral certainty as benign...
...somehow the rise of Osama bin Laden and terrorist extremism seems to call progress into question. Bin Laden and his followers embrace a medieval notion of religion and society (except of course when it comes to weapons, when they'd like to be scientifically up-to the minute). They missed out completely on the Enlightenment notion that the sacred and the secular should be kept separate as well as the 18th century notion that mankind had finally entered the age of reason...