“An image that crowds out many others in my mind is
that of tens of thousands fleeing New York City by foot. As I watched and wept,
I recalled something I had said many times in my classes on war: ‘Americans
don’t have living memories of what it means to flee a city in flames. Americans
have not been horrified by refugees fleeing burning cities.’ No more. Now we
know.”—Political philosopher and ethicist Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941-2013),
quoted in Paul Vitello, “Jean Bethke Elshtain, A Guiding Light For Policy Makers After 9/11, Dies at 72,” The New York Times, August 16, 2013
(Photograph of
dust-covered 9/11 victims taken by Don Halasy)
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