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Home Front
Richard Cohen on cowardice
2001-11-01
  • "What do these people want from the government? What do they want from mere government officials? They want, I feel, more than assurance, reassurance and the comforting rhetoric that everything's going to be okay. They operate, I think, out of the same emotional needs as many of the people who blame America for the terrorist attacks -- it must be something we've done -- or yearn, as the novelist Alice Walker does, for us to respond with love. We will not kill bin Laden. We will make him nauseated." (Richard Cohen)
    America is crawling with the weak and the timid and the hysterical -- but there aren't as many of them as we would have expected prior to 9-11. There will be fewer of them as time passes because we can soon expect a resurgence of mockery from those who have a normal quotient of bravery and good sense, and shame from those who don't. If we're wrong, then we lose the war.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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