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To: KLP who wrote (44609)	5/15/2004 3:05:07 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793914

Actually, I looked up the number of editorials. I found four on that subject. They may have been longer than the Berg one. They probably were longer. I didn't read them all because they were old enough that you have to pay to read them and I didn't think that necessary. Still, you're right. More words on our sins than on theirs. I'm not sure what else could have been said, though. There were a lot of words at the earlier beheading, Daniel Pearl. There was lots of outrage then because that was an escalation in barbarity. A second beheading doesn't have the same impact. It's still ghastly, but no longer novel. It's the novelty that provokes all the words. Abu Ghraib was a novelty. Novel events provoke fresh thoughts that beg to be written. Everything anyone would want to express about beheadings had already been expressed. I thought the editorial in question was well written--tight and poignant, very tasteful.