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...President Bush faced a transcendent challenge Thursday night, to address a nation in all its grief and anger and confusion over what comes next. It's hard to plan D-day against an enemy with no beaches and no borders, and when wise heads counsel that the most effective counterattack may be the least publicly satisfying kind--the quiet intelligence and financial and psychological warfare that can best "drain the swamp" where the terrorists hide. Would a large-scale attack demonstrate American resolve or play into the hands of those hoping to create a martyr? "Not only do you need...
...possible. But it would be a mistake to confuse the reaction of the past weeks, a culture of mourning, with a long-term change. The public's current emotions are many--grief, anger, shame, helplessness--but we may look back on them as the simplest ones we experienced during this chapter of history. And our response has already been more complex than you might think. Some have predicted a return to light escapism. Video-rental stores reported a spike in comedy rentals. MGM expanded the comedy Legally Blonde onto 1,300 screens after movie houses began pleading for feel-good...
...want to be effective in a long-term struggle against terror, we need a strategy to marginalize the terrorists by making it much harder for them to appeal to legitimate anger at the U.S. Imagine if the bin Ladens and other haters of the world had to recruit people against the U.S. at a time when...
...either with us or against us in the war on terror—by rewarding those who choose to side with us. And it will require a fortitude and commitment that extend far beyond the usual election-centric time horizons of American policy, for nothing would anger our potential allies more than if we left hospitals and bridges and courthouses incomplete when a new president was elected...
...centuries Americans have cherished their right to travel unfettered, without the papers or ID cards many police states have required throughout history. A large source of anger for American colonistswas a restriction the British government imposed on travel west beyond the Appalachian Mountains. During the Cold War, Soviet nationals marveled at how Americans could pass from state to state without being stopped for “papers.” Furthermore, the Supreme Court deemed this right to travel freely to be explicit in the Constitution under the 14th Amendment’s “equal protection?...