Since arriving in the capital he has shown appropriate restraint pending the yield of the investigation to identify the planners, financiers, and sponsors of the attacks. And appropriate commitment to bring them, once identified, to justice. The lid on partisanship from the more strident Democrats and Republican leaders of Congress and state houses is as pleasing as it is surprising. It is a shame that it is surprising. A few owners of gasoline stations rushed to profit from a nation's anxiety and now should be pariahs for doing so.
Peril calls forth the better angels of our nature.
No maudlin condemnations for that here. Much may have changed between the writing and the hearing of these thoughts. Overnight, we may have identified the guilty and embarked on an inevitably violent response. America, indeed, the world, some say, will be changed forever. At least a few terrorists will now learn this lesson at their own peril.