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...made clear to me that he did not want to respond to al-Qaeda one attack at a time. He told me he was 'tired of swatting flies.'" CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. National Security Adviser, explaining what she said was U.S. President George W. Bush's strategy on al-Qaeda, during her testimony before the commission investigating the attacks of 9/11...
...Rice, we only swatted a fly once, on the 20th of August 1998. We didn't swat any flies afterwards. How the hell could he be tired?" BOB KERREY, Democratic member of the 9/11 commission, referring to the 1998 retaliatory missile strike that President Bill Clinton ordered against al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan...
Politics is always novelistic, but the last week’s worth of news had me flashing back to high school English class. The latest twists in the swiftly unraveling plot of our government’s past and present security policy, led by the climactic testimony of Condoleezza Rice before the Sept. 11 Commission last week, make the newspaper look like a bank of examples to supplement the review glossary for the AP test. You could tick off the literary terms embodied in the headlines, one by one, as if it had been laid out this way on purpose...
...miles away and a few inches over on the screen, the aftermath of a massive car bombing in Baghdad flared and billowed in the night. Somewhat less dramatically, a news ticker gave a running account of last week’s sudden anti-American uprising in Iraq, while Dr. Rice testified to the Sept. 11 Commission that our actions in Iraq were removing a source of “violence and fear and instability in the world’s most dangerous region.” Then, on Sunday, Chris Matthews showed on his program footage of President Bush...
Understatement: A good author knows how the right kind of understatement can actually emphasize the understated point. Dr. Rice unintentionally offered a fine example when, in private testimony to the Sept. 11 Commission, she reportedly asked to revise her previous statement that “I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile—a hijacked airplane as a missile.” That pillar of her case that nothing could...