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If the crowd behavior wasn't bad enough, there was commissioner John Lehman's description of the mishaps among emergency responders as "not worthy of the Boy Scouts, let alone this great city." It was a good line, but it wasn't true. The emergency people did a fabulous job that day, mistakes and all.

We are, quite simply, using hindsight to find fault with the performance of those charged with protecting us on a day when the inconceivable occurred. We weren't ready psychologically, and nothing short of cataclysm could have prepared us. Things could have been done better, but on the whole they were done well. Nothing can bring back the dead. There is no restitution in this world, only the next.

Through all the rage and the posturing, there was Giuliani, speaking simple truths that we seem to be forgetting, much as he did that fateful day. "The blame," he said Wednesday, "should be put on one source alone, the terrorists who killed our loved ones." What a shame that on Wednesday, this qualified as a political statement.

Meanwhile, the enemy lies in wait, nurturing a victimhood that long ago became deadly.

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