【正文】 We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. Last Wednesday (Sept. 26), Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman, attacked Mr. Mayer and warned others, saying, Americans ... need to watch what they say, watch what they do, and ... this is not a time for remarks like that。s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it39。s ments themselves (they were about a dozen years old, after all) but the disruptive impact and security risks of having a polarizing figure on campus. Alumni contributions dropped, for example. 3. ... edian Bill Mayer, the host of the LAbased ABC work chat show, had on September 17 as his guest the writer and political mentator Dinesh D39。s stiff new anti terrorism law passed in late October, the socalled Patriot Act. The US Attorney39。 largest Muslim charities, the Global Relief Foundation, has been held in solitary confinement, first in Ann Arbor and then at a federal facility in Chicago. He is in his cell. Alone, for 23 hours a day. Every time he leaves, either to exercise in a special highsecurity cage or to take one of his thriceweekly showers, he is handcuffed. And yet Haddad, a Lebanese citizen who was educated in the United States, has been charged with no crime. According to the Treasury Department the only branch of government to give any explanation whatsoeverhe and his charity are suspected of links to Osama bin Laden39。s alQa39。s office in Chicago refused all ment. 2. Tampa, Fla,Sami A1Arian leans back on a carvedwood Egyptian couch and squirms as he tries to explain why in 1991 he declared 39。Sonza, who had taken issue with President Bush39。s not cowardly. The remarks caused Fed Ex and Sears, two of the advertisers on the show to pull their ads under pressure. Mayer has since apologized for offending people ... A campaign is under way to have him sacked and the show closed down... The ABC news anchor Peter Jennings, received more than 10,000 s after making the following remarks on air. The country looks to the president on occasions like this to be reassuring to the nation. Some presidents do it well, some presidents don39。 there never is. ~ 5. ... Some in our nation39。colonize39。Students in my classes see this as an assault on international trade, globalization. 39。 are spreading twisted messages from the fantasy world they inhabit, The Heritage Foundation will continue to tell the truth to Congress, the media, and the Public. 6. I don39。an enemy no less dangerous and no less determined than the twin menaces of fascism and munism we faced in the 20th century. At the same time, the $128,000 ad lambasted those at home 39。 Both [internal and external] threats, the ad continues,39。 6. The vicepresident39。 challenge chorus： a simultaneous utterance by many (2) a growing chorus of dissenting voices more and more people join in expressing their opposition (3) question the rush toward being a security state challenge the wisdom of taking hasty, not wellthoughtout measures to put homeland defense over everything else 16. There is a dialectic afoot... (1) afoot： in operation (2) Some people in the country begin to examine the validity of the argument of security state. 17 that has been largely ignored ... multihued. (1)主流媒體基本上不反映這種情況，它們認(rèn)為公眾的想法只有紅、白、藍(lán)三色，殊不知人們情感、思想、觀點(diǎn)的色譜就和美國(guó)本身一樣，是多彩的。s statement correct? Most analysts agree that the most serious impact of the Sept. 11 attacks is psychological, that is, the shattering of the sense of invulnerability. (2) Why does the writer consider the sense of invulnerability the hallmark of the American psyche? A review of American history will convince the readers that this is the case. Since 1812, continental America has not been invaded by a foreign country. Since the end of the Civil War, there has been no war taking place on America39。t he agree with them? He does not think the loss of innocence is a bad thing. Besides, he does not think this is the main consequence of the attack. (3) How does he express his disapproval? He expresses his disapproval in an understatement. Para. 8 23. Overnight... surreal episodes... (1) Why does the writer mention a sword of Damocles? This is an allusion and the writer uses it to show that people fear that terrorist attacks may fall upon them any time so they live in constant fear, the same as Damocles sitting under a sword suspended by a hair. (2) Suddenly, people in the United States found themselves living in constant fear, fearing that another terrorist attack might e at any time and as a result there had been growing tendency of irrational suspicion and mistrust, leading to certain fanatic actions. 24 most appalling of all ... one more American. (1) What did the OpEds advocate? They declared that if one more American was killed by Muslim terrorists, the American government was entitled to using nuclear weapons against Muslin countries. (2) Why does the writer consider such statements appalling? They are appalling for several reasons. (a) The advocacy of the use of nuclear weapons is appalling. The destructive power nuclear weapons and their indiscriminate killing have made rational and responsible statesmen oppose the use of nuclear weapons. Now some of the American elites were proposing the use of such weapons against Muslim countries without nuclear weapons. This is immoral, irrational and irresponsible. (b) The disproportionate response is appalling. The killing of one more American and the killing of millions in Muslin countries by nuclear weapons are totally disproportionate. The work o{ an individual terrorist or a terrorist group and the destruction of Muslin countries alleged to be harboring terrorists are also totally disproportionate. The people killed in those countrie