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...conservative flank finds it deeply appealing; the current crop of Democratic leaders are rendered virtually speechless by it. But moral certainty "without trying to nuance," as Bush put it, is a dangerous luxury for a President. If you operate as though Arafat is a terrorist and Israel a victim, you isolate the U.S. from moderate Arab states, who see their region in shades of gray. That could limit your options--and your allies--after you have told everyone that Saddam Hussein can no longer be contained and that you need to take him down. Announcing a crusade marks...
...special master of the Federal Government's September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, Feinberg has to put a price on lost life. It may be a heartrending calculus, but it is, in the end, just calculus. Lawyers and actuaries worked out payment structures for catastrophic death decades ago, and--with a few modifications for cost of living, income and dependents--anyone can discover his or her approximate postmortem value with a 10- second glance at a statistical chart. Feinberg's challenge is to convince the 9/11 families that even though the country has valorized their husbands, sisters, sons and mothers because...
...first order of business, he scheduled large introductory meetings with the families. The meetings did not go well. In most settlements, the moment of injury or death and the discussion of a settlement take place years apart, giving the aggrieved time to cope with their loss. The Victim Compensation Fund did not have that luxury. "These people lost family members just weeks before in the most horrific circumstances," says Jeanne Marks, a psychologist and friend of Feinberg's who has met with several of the families. "They lost total control of their lives, and then Ken comes in and presents...
...example, natural for Americans to sympathize with Israelis--fellow sufferers from terrorism. But it is false to imagine that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with its roots in competing claims to the same real estate, can be solved solely by asking who is a terrorist and who is a victim...
Second, the actual risk of being a terror victim is not merely small--it is unknown and unknowable. Economists make a distinction between "risk" and "uncertainty." Risk refers to hard mathematical odds. Uncertainty refers to situations in which the odds are anybody's guess...