Posted on 09/12/2002 3:32:12 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:08:16 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
YEAR AND a day later, it is striking how quickly the moral clarity that followed the attacks was beset by moral confusion.
Not everywhere, of course. This time around, The New York Times did not mark Sept. 11 with a celebration of terrorism - as opposed to Sept. 11, 2001, when the front of the paper's Arts section featured an affectionate profile of former Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers. ''He still has the ebullient, ingratiating manner ... that made him a charismatic figure in the radical student movement,'' reporter Dinitia Smith bubbled. These days, the Times takes a different view of terrorists.
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