Posted on 09/12/2001 8:07:29 PM PDT by VinnyTex
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:03:30 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Yesterday President Bush issued his sharpest statement yet about Tuesday's assaults on U.S. cities, calling them "more than acts of terror" but "acts of war." If he--and we as a country--really mean that, it's time to start getting serious.
As Mr. Bush elaborated, that is going to mean more than anti-terrorist "business as usual" or the moral equivalent of war. It means real war, involving a sustained national mobilization of resources, allies and people. It also means rethinking some of the softer political pieties about our modern, violent world.
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