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There’s been an awful lot of bad news recently. The war in Afghanistan isn’t going particularly well, the FBI has no idea who’s sending us anthrax, and every few weeks there’s the rumor of another opus by bin Laden & Co. We live in a scarier world now, and it’s becoming clear that we can’t go back. We can’t build a wall or hire more Homeland Security police and hope the problem will go away...
...allow society to function—the trust that a stranger is not trying to kill us whenever we board an airplane or open our mail. We can improve our airport security and watch our toxic waste trucks, but we can never think hard enough to imagine everything a bin Laden could imagine—like attacking the Pentagon with boxcutters. And no matter how many armed guards we post, they only work against someone who’s afraid of getting shot...
...enough to kill innocent Americans. Again, although there are certain responsible steps we should take, there’s good reason to doubt whether even a kinder, gentler America will have its virtue recognized. Even if we changed our Israel policy or dropped our sanctions on Iraq at bin Laden’s request, we would still be the most prominent and most successful devotee of the Western, secular spirit against which the radicals of the Muslim world have defined themselves...
...other words, international institutions are coming back into style—not because the U.S. wants to please other nations and to show that we’re a team player, or because bin Laden is nursing a secret grudge about the death penalty and the Kyoto Accords, but because we have become painfully aware of our vulnerability and the need for some collective security of our own. Just as NATO has for the first time invoked its mutual defense clause, that an attack on one state is an attack on all, we have suddenly realized that an abuse...
...however, will be a long one and it?s already met with setbacks. Bin Laden trained 11,000 men at his Afghan camps, most of who have fanned out to other countries. Cooperation is uneven among foreign intelligence services and the agency hasn?t had much luck in the past in draining bin Laden?s bank accounts. Many of the 300 detained overseas are innocents swept up in dragnets. CIA agents have been roaming southern and eastern Afghanistan with bags full cash, trying to entice Pashtun warlords to turn against the Taliban. But the agents have had limited success, according...