NEW!
September 03,
2002 -
A Real War on Terrorism
- Slate, Tuesday, September
3, 2002, at 8:49 AM PT,
Robert Wright, a visiting
scholar at the University of
Pennsylvania, is the author of
The Moral Animal and Nonzero:
The Logic of Human Destiny.
The Bush Team Fails To Get the
Big Picture After the attacks of
Sept. 11, the Bush
administration depicted the war
on terrorism as something that,
like past wars, would have a
definite ending. Secretary of
State Colin Powell said we would
get terrorism "by its branch and
root." And President Bush's
pledges of clear-cut victory
weren't confined to his
memorably ambitious vow to "rid
the world of evil-doers." Even
in less exuberant moments, he
said his goal was to "rout out
and destroy global terrorism."
The war would be complex and
multifaceted, and it might not
be brief, but "its outcome is
certain," Bush said. "This will
not be an age of terror..."
