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...part, the Israelis struck at Arafat because they could. Israeli military officials acknowledge that though they knew Islamic Jihad was to blame, they didn't have specific intelligence immediately available enabling them to hit directly at the group. In that sense, rocketing Arafat's compound was a bit like being angry at your spouse and therefore kicking the dog. Beyond that, the Israelis insist that Arafat is responsible for all Palestinian terrorism, not just the attacks carried out by the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which is part of his Fatah organization. Their argument is that Arafat does not seriously go after...
...exchange rates and attempt to write the Great American Novel. In 1991 the inaugural issue of the English-language weekly Prague Post proclaimed, "We are living in the Left Bank of the '90s." So where are those novels, and how great are they? A decade later--blame it on those long Slavic siestas--the Hemingways of the East bloc are finally here...
...seems that the White House was aware of unspecified terrorist threats prior to Sept. 11 [SPECIAL REPORT, May 27], but is it right to blame the President or his staff? They didn't know exactly when these attacks were to take place or where or how. Has everyone forgotten who the true terrorists were that day? The most important thing to remember is that thousands of lives were lost. People should stop blaming those who, even if they had done everything in their power, probably wouldn't have been able to stop the attacks. We should now focus...
With all the blame being thrown around, distracting the President from his job and dividing us all, maybe we should blame the car-rental companies whose autos let the terrorists get to the airports; or the architect of the World Trade Center for not foreseeing that a fully fueled airplane might crash into the buildings, melt the girders and cause a collapse; or the landlords who rented to terrorists. How silly is that? Forget "shoulda, woulda, coulda," and focus on "what are we gonna do from now on?" SANDRA HOCHSTEDLER South Bend...
Until a couple of weeks ago, figuring out who was to blame for the intelligence failures before Sept. 11 wasn't on Tom Daschle's must-do list. Since the beginning of the year, the majority leader had been busy corralling balky Democrats in the Senate on the down-home issues that would play best in the November elections: Social Security, health care, education, pension protection and the environment. But with evidence of FBI bungling impossible to ignore and reporters badgering him for a response, Daschle decided to go off message in a politically risky way. He announced...