Despite the ten years that had passed since the terrorist attacks of September 2001, religion (or, more precisely, Islam) was still very much in the cultural spotlight, therefore "Three Faiths" was viewed by some as bearing a deeper significance than purely historical.
"To declare war on terrorists or, even more illiterately, on terrorism, is at once to accord terrorists a status and dignity that they seek and that they do not deserve," Howard said.
People at the B.N.D. complain that for years there was no interest at home in the kind of intelligence they were gathering about the connections between criminal networks and terrorist networks, or, more precisely, between the practical clandestine life of one terrorist and the traffic in weapons, technology, drugs, illegal immigrants, laundered money, and protection on which his life depends.
Too often, we either averted our eyes (after obligatory verbiage expressing pro forma outrage), or we focused on finding the specific perpetrators, instead of punishing nations that have actively succored terrorist groups or, more passively, let them train and operate within their borders.
"[Opponents'] categorization of me as a terrorist, murderer or more has been used by their leftist friends to engender hatred and incite the threat of violence against me," Hill told the Legislative Health and Human Service Committee on Wednesday.
How are these terrorists any worse or more capable of escaping the American supermax prisons than those other murderers already in them?
We can't "win" a "war" against terrorism or terror or terrorists any more than we can "win" a war on crime or drugs or poverty.
Describing the shooting as a "terrorist attack", Mr Aroui told reporters earlier today that "two or more terrorists armed with Kalashnikovs" killed seven foreigners at the Bardo Museum in the capital, Tunis, Al Jazeera reported.
In its place was something far more dangerous than terrorists or highly armed psychopaths, more fundamentally terrifying than butchery or bombs: Numbed acceptance, bordering on disassociation.
