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September 12,=20 2001

THE WAR AGAINST=20 AMERICA

An Unfathomable Attack
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3DR=20emember the=20 ordinary, if you can. Remember how normal New York City = seemed at=20 sunrise yesterday, as beautiful a morning as ever dawns in = early=20 September. The polls had opened for a primary election, and = if the=20 day seemed unusual in any way, that was the reason =97 the = collective=20 awareness that the night would be full of numbers. All the=20 innumerable habits and routines that define a city were = unbroken.=20 Everyone was preoccupied, in just the way we usually call=20 innocence.

And by 10:30 a.m. all that had gone. Lower Manhattan had = become=20 an ashen shell of itself, all but a Pompeii under the impact = of a=20 terrorist attack involving two airliners that crashed into = the World=20 Trade Center and then brought its twin towers down. In = Washington, a=20 third plane had plunged into the Pentagon. The president was = for a=20 long while out of sight, his plane seeming to hop around the = middle=20 of the country in search of security. For all Americans, the = unimaginable became real.

In his evening speech, George W. Bush said yesterday was = a day we=20 would never forget. It was, in fact, one of those moments in = which=20 history splits, and we define the world as "before" and = "after." As=20 the scenes of the explosions replayed themselves on = television=20 throughout the day, the shock only deepened as we began to = perceive=20 the suffering those pictures from New York and Washington = concealed=20 =97 office workers at the World Trade Center, caught in the = collapsing=20 lattices of glass and steel, and the unbelieving passengers = aboard=20 the second airliner as it swooped below the smoke in the = north=20 tower, already burning, and plunged into the southern one. =

Last night was full of numbers, but they were the numbers = of the=20 dead and wounded, a list still stunningly incomplete and = likely to=20 remain so for days to come. Every routine, every habit this = city=20 knew was fractured yesterday. If a flight full of commuters = can be=20 turned into a missile of war, everything is dangerous. If = four=20 planes can be taken over simultaneously by suicidal = hijackers, then=20 we can never be quite sure again that any bad intention can = be=20 thwarted, no matter how irrational or loathsome. We have = nearly all=20 had occasion to wonder how civilians who suddenly found = their=20 country at war and themselves under attack managed to frame = some=20 memory of life as it once was. Now we know. We look back at = sunrise=20 yesterday through pillars of smoke and dust, down streets = snowed=20 under with the atomized debris of the skyline, and we = understand=20 that everything has changed.

As distinctive as the World Trade Center was in its = dominance=20 over the city, it was also a profoundly ordinary place. This = we=20 learned for the first time when it was bombed in 1993 and = out of its=20 stairwells and exits came our friends and neighbors, smudged = and=20 grimacing. It was also, as now appears too plainly, = shockingly naked=20 against the sky, its only real defense the happy confidence = that=20 there were some things that no human being would want to do, = and=20 others that none could possibly carry off.

Commentators throughout the day yesterday dwelled on the = scale of=20 the planning this terrorist mission must have required. But = it is=20 just as important to consider the intensity of the hatred it = took to=20 bring it off. It is a hatred that exceeds the conventions of = warfare, that knows no limits, abides by no agreements. We = had=20 presumed that the very excess of such emotions made them = erratic,=20 that instability and inefficiency were securely coupled. But = that=20 was when we lived on the other side of history's rift.

What we live with now, beyond shock and beyond the = courage=20 witnessed on the streets in New York and Washington = yesterday, is an=20 urge for reprisal. But this is an age when even revenge is=20 complicated, when it is hard to match the desire for = retribution=20 with the need for certainty. We suffer from an act of war = without=20 any enemy nation with which to do battle. The same media = that=20 brought us the pictures of a collapsing World Trade Center = shows us=20 the civilians who live in the same places that terrorists = may dwell,=20 whose lives are just as ordinary and just as precious as the = ones=20 that we have lost. That leaves us all, for now, with fully = burdened=20 emotions, undiminished by anything but the passage of the = few hours=20 that have elapsed since midmorning yesterday. There is a = world of=20 consoling to be done.



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