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Article: United States and Nations: solidarity for how long?
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- Our Times
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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SEVERAL WEEKS BEFORE THE outrage committed in New York and Washington, D.C., by a group of religious fanatics, I wrote a column for this space that, ironically, portrayed the United States as an international outlaw on the world's stage. This is not that column -- though its point is still valid (and I will return to that shortly) -- because, in the wake of those events, it seemed insensitive. If readers had thought that I'd written it after the attacks, it would have seemed even bizarre. As I write this now, the U.S. retaliation has yet to take place, but it is surely coming.
People around the world reacted with horror to those insane acts of terrorism, but not, as the American media would ...