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...that imagination is more important than knowledge. Rice's performance before the 9/11 commission showed her to be smart but ultimately not a big thinker. Even more appalling is Bush's claim that he would have done something if he had known exactly when and where al-Qaeda would strike. The statement makes plain the Administration's failure to appreciate that the mishandling of the threat from al-Qaeda was not a failure of intelligence but a failure of imagination. Michael H. Weiss Marina...
...Briefing the President After reading about the recently declassified Presidential Daily Brief of Aug. 6, 2001, entitled "Bin Laden Determined To Strike in US" [April 19], I found it difficult to accept Bush's view that the memo contained no indication of a terrorist threat or a time and place of attack. The brief stated that there were "patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks" and that "a group of bin Laden supporters was in the US planning attacks with explosives." How much more detailed did the memo have...
...Administration allowed itself to be blinded by righteousness. Why? Because moral pomposity is almost always a camouflage for baser fears and desires. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the neoconservatives share a primal belief in the use of military power to intimidate enemies. If the U.S. didn't strike back "big time," it would be perceived as weak. (Crushing the peripheral Taliban and staying focused on rooting out al-Qaeda cells wasn't "big" enough.) The President may have had some personal motives-doing to Saddam Hussein what his father didn't; filling out Karl Rove's prescription of a strong leader...
...however obscure, not to kill. That's cold comfort, however, to the other 201 countries sending teams to the Athens Olympics. The timing of last week's explosions - precisely 100 days before the opening of the Games - summoned the nightmare scenario that has haunted organizers since 9/11: a terrorist strike against the biggest show on earth. Every possible preventive measure seemed to be in place; the $1.2-billion Olympic security budget is over three times that of the last summer games, in Sydney, Australia, and security is being coordinated not just by Greek authorities but also by a seven-member...
...Unlike the terrorists in New York, Istanbul and Madrid, Karmon and others say, the Greek anarchists are seeking to test the establishment, not kill large numbers of people. The most likely suspect in Wednesday's attack is a group called the Revolutionary Struggle, which was behind a similar strike outside a courthouse last year. Greek terrorism experts believe the bombs were less a warning of things to come than a political provocation aimed at embarrassing the government. They succeeded. There were plenty of red faces among the Greek delegation that arrived in Washington later that day to brief...