Each Murder Is One Too Many.

Manhattan... Capital Of The 20th Century, A City That Has Fascinated Me For More Than Three Decades.

If The September 11 Terror Attack Is Supposed To Constitute A Caesura In World History, It Must Be Able To Stand Comparison To Other Events Of World Historical Impact.

Osama Bin Laden, The Person, More Likely Serves The Function Of A Stand-in. Compare The New Terrorists With Partisans Or Conventional Terrorists In Israel. These People Often Fight In A Decentralized Manner In Small, Autonomous Units, Too.

Some Of Those Drawn Into The Holy War Had Been Secular Nationalists Only A Few Years Before. If One Looks At The Biographies Of These People, Remarkable Continuities Are Revealed.

I Cannot Imagine A Context That Would Some Day, In Some Manner, Make The Monstrous Crime Of September 11 An Understandable Or Comprehensible Political Act