![]() They are beyond the reach of our vengeance now, and so that vengeance has become distinctly second order: We must catch not the murderers but the planners. The suicide bombers have short-circuited the cry of an eye for an eye. Timothy McVeigh fled the scene of the Oklahoma City bombing and, whether or not he acted alone, the person we most wanted to catch was McVeigh himself. Had the hijackers survived the attack on the World Trade Center, we would now be reserving a large measure of our retribution for them. They didn't kill and run for cover but, in killing, killed themselves. ![]() ![]() But the hijackers, terrifyingly, left the shadows and struck in full daylight, with the whole world watching. The president insists that we are dealing with an enemy who strikes from the shadows, an enemy who kills and runs for cover. ![]()
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