Posted on 09/11/2001 11:02:38 PM PDT by VinnyTex
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:45:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
By Mark Helprin, a novelist and a contributing editor of the Journal.
America, it is said, is slow to awaken, and indeed it is, but once America stirs, its resolution can be matchless and its ferocity a stunning surprise.
The enemy we face today, though barbaric and ingenious, is hardly comparable to the masters of the Third Reich, whose doubts about our ability to persevere we chose to dissuade in a Berlin that we had reduced to rubble. Nor is he comparable to the commanders of the Japanese Empire, whose doubts about our ability to persevere we chose to dissuade in a Tokyo we had reduced to rubble. Nor to the Soviet Empire that we faced down patiently over half a century, nor to the great British Empire from which we broke free in a long and taxing struggle that affords a better picture of our kith and kin than any the world may have today of who we are and of what we are capable.
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I hope Mr. Bin Laden is reading this when the missile comes through his window.
They cannot live in a structured world and will require a vigilante-type justice from us. And a declaration of war.
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