Just short of 60 years after Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke before congress declaring war on Japan, George W. Bush stood before congress on Sept. 20 and made promises to rid the world of the evil which perpetrated the murders of more than 6,000 innocent people in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania with something he has declared as a war on terrorism.
The Los Angeles Times could not have explained the situation any better when it reported in its Sept. 16 issue, "Amid the grieving for thousands of American victims of terrorism and the clamor for revenge, the fate of two U.S. aid workers imprisoned in Afghanistan has all but been forgotten."