Terrorism: September 2001 Archives

It's not just for extremist Muslims, but a game we can all play together!"Of course, envisioning a violent, vengeful God allowing the deathof thousands of innocent people is different than actuallymurdering thousands of innocent people in the name of God. But the comments of Falwell, Robertson and Abouhalima tell ussomething about the fervor of fundamentalism, and its reaction tosecularism and secular governments at home and abroad. They also remind us that no religion has a monopoly on twistingspiritual truth."http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/09/23/MN202713.DTL

Let me confess: I am completely terrified right now. I'm going to work, I am hanging out with friends, I am working on projects like an invitation for a friend's baby shower, I am eating, I am sleeping, and I am in a constant state of low-level fear throughout it all. I want someone to tell me that I have no reason for this, and that everything will likely turn out fine, except this time nobody can really say this and mean it, as they are confronted with the same reality that I am.So I started surfing the web...www.chrisj.winisp.net/articles/fear.htm http://www.nigelparry.com/diary/hebron/cpt2.htmland one of my greatest fears... www.lsic.ucla.edu/classes/mimg/summer1_01/micro12/Website/JAMAarticles/Biolterrorism.htmlAnd this one is a good link...www.edgate.com/sep_11th.htmlI'm still freaked out though.

Martin Amis in the Guardian. He talks about the plane having to rise slightly to avoid hitting an arch in Washington Square Park. I was in Washington Square Park earlier this year on that trip to New York. (I thought of Henry James then.)

The Guardian featured links to two articles that I'm still reading, trying to comprehend what's going on in the world. One is about suicide terrorists, and one is about challenges to the intelligence community from "asymmetric threats"

People in other countries have had to live with this for years. It's new to us. I feel very differently about Israel's policies towards terrorists than I did before. Not for any particularly good reason, just that it's much more visceral now. Sad that it's that way.