Word: terrorism
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...photos of the year prove that 2005 was a devastating time for most of the world. My eye was caught by the picture of the London bus mangled by a bomb explosion. Ironically, the remains of a theater or movie advertisement on the side of the bus read, outright terror ... bold and brilliant. Emilio A. Schlabitz Culver City, California, U.S. As I looked at the photos over a cup of gourmet coffee, I thought I should never again complain about having to wait in line an extra minute or two or having to shovel the walkway after a snowstorm...
...reminded listening to President Bush in Louisville on Wednesday of all the times I've argued with editors over whether we are fighting a War on Terror, or a War on Terrorism...
...always used the former, because it is short and fierce; copy editors routinely changed it to the latter as more grammatically correct. Terrorism is a tactic wrapped in ideology; terror is an experience, and you can't declare war on one of those. But only now as I listened to the President answer questions did I realize how important a distinction this is, and how success or failure lies in the meaning of those words, and the difference in those wars...
...preserve Israel as Jewish and democratic, Israel could not remain in control of all the West Bank and Gaza. So he did what was previously unthinkable: he withdrew unilaterally from Gaza and dismantled the settlements there. Only someone who had built the settlements and also been tough on terror and never willing to "compromise on Israeli security" could have taken on the settler constituency in Israel. His main legacy will be that Israel will make its future choices based not on the biblical vision of the land of Israel but on the practical needs of the Israeli people...
...words of Michael Ondaatje, not a colonizer surveying foreign ground, but a homesick exile looking back on the world he misses. Reading to a New York audience soon after Sept. 11, he shares the work of Agha Shahid Ali, a Kashmiri poet who has lived with civil war and terror all his life. Bringing a young republic a larger sense of history, and so of suffering, is not the least of the achievements of this sober and highly dignified book...