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To: Ilaine who wrote (114161)	9/8/2003 6:56:05 PM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (2) of 281500

By making 9/11 into a totem, we made political Islam a lot more powerful than we needed to...By making it a huge symbolic watershed event, that "changes everything", we made it a huge symbolic even for political Islam...We should not have done that... X the Unknown 9/4/03 Message 19267976 What is required [as a response to 9-11] is a steady, unostentatious stoicism...This doesn't require drum rolls or bagpipes or banners. The French had a saying during the period when the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine were lost to them: "Always think of it. Never speak of it." Christopher Hitchens 9/8/03 slate.msn.com When X expressed this sentiment last week, he was pounced upon by several here. Will those same folks now think that Hitchens has made a wonderful point?

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