Word: afterthoughts
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...blame that David M. DeBartolo places on America and Israel in “Terrorists Are Made, Not Born” (Opinion, Oct. 23) for the current international crisis is appalling. Making the terrorism of the Palestinians an afterthought, DeBartolo laments that America has not put more pressure on Israel to recognize a Palestinian state...
...suicide attacks in New York and Washington. Islamic solidarity is the first truth. "Osama bin Laden is not a terrorist. His mission is to highlight the problem the U.S. has done to the Arabs," one student on his way to classes said. And then he adds, almost as an afterthought: "The attack was a terrible shock and the perpetrators must be punished...
...think of anything except the victims who might be underneath the rubble and their families. My girlfriend lives in New York. Many of my friends work in the World Trade Center and lower Manhattan. As I frantically dialed 212 phone numbers, the rest of the world was a distant afterthought...
...dilemma of retaliation is sharpened when the victim of terrorism is a nation of laws but the perpetrator respects none. Arrests and trials are a mostly symbolic afterthought in the battle against terrorism, and yet U.S. law forbids tactics such as assassination that are routinely used by more battle-scarred nations...
...competent, inoffensive and short on surprises. While Thornton's record is country-inflected and Crowe's is in the vein of Bruce Springsteen, they are both deadly serious and seriously ponderous. As musicians, both men appear to emote first and consider putting on a good show as an afterthought. With those priorities, making music lots of people want to hear requires exceptional gifts indeed...