Managing rage: how to deal with anti-American backlash. (Gazette).

AS THE FOG LIFTS FROM THE September 11 attacks, the FBI and CIA are presumably honing in on the identity and aims of the people behind the plot. An organizational explanation focused on conspiratorial networks will be easier for us to accept than a broader sociological one, since anyone who draws attention to the "root causes" of anti-American hostility in the Islamic world risks sounding like an apologist for the terrorists.

We need to deepen our understanding of anti-American rage, however, not so much because it lay behind the plot as because it lies ahead of it. ...

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