[arete]

It isn't right to blame 9/11 for as much as people are now doing. Yes, it did hurt the airlines and they sure didn't need any more problems than they already had. Yes, it hurt some tourism, but not as much as you might think. I live in Charleston and you can't fit another tourist in this town. Eisner was steering DIS onto the rocks before 9/11.

The only point that I'm trying to make here is that The Office of Propaganda and Information Management is going to point at a variety of causes for the weak economy. It will be 9/11 or it will be the war on terrorism or it will be Wall Street or it will be Iraq or this and that. The last place they want us looking is at the government. It's the old blame game and big business or terrorism are easy targets.

9/11 was tragic, make no mistake about it but you sure can't blame it for the unraveling of a bubble economy.

Richard W.

[LS]

We strongly disagree. But DO look at the article on the Milken Institute web page called "The Butcher's Bill." I think these guys are way LOW.