The Texas Observer, October 26th, 2001
Recognition
There is a photo on my desk of a man falling to his death from one of the World Trade Towers. There are stories in my head of last-minute cell calls made from hijacked planes. There are cries, there is smoke, there is forced death. To know that most Americans share the burden of keeping these memories with me is only the smallest consolation.
Many of us who've argued for peace in recent weeks have been met with the same question again and again: If we don't kill them, what, exactly, do you want us to do? Lay still, wait for the next attack? The issue for me has never been whether...
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