"Many would rather believe that those who fell from the World Trade Centre were forced from their offices as saying they jumped connotes suicide; a few, however, see courage in their decision to take charge of the manner of their dying."

"I don’t know why. It’s not that I want to forget. I can’t and won’t. It’s not that it’s too painful. It was more painful then, though I will say that all this 9/11 talk is giving me a renewed if slight sense of dread. It’s not even that I think media have been too exploitive. In fact, I’m shocked they haven’t been far more exploitive.

I guess it’s that life isn’t defined by a day, no matter how momentous."

Fantastic feature story on the raid to get Osama bin Laden.

The New Yorker wraps up what bin Laden has changed in America.

Lisa Curtis has to leave Niger after just 3 months because of terrorist activity in the area.

Current airport security measures are both a waste of our time and our money.

"How the United States got Lebanon's leading Shiite cleric dead wrong -- and missed a chance to change the Middle East forever."

Perhaps we should not be as afraid of terrorist organizations as we are led to believe.