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1、I study political violence for a living., yet I, too, am shaken and unsure how to react. As I sit here today in my office, only a few miles from the still-burning Pentagon, images of the slaughter in my native New York dominate my thoughts. It makes it hard to concent
2、rate on work, and it makes the everyday things seem so trivial. Only now, twenty-four hours after the tragedy began to unfold, have I begun to realize how this has affected me on so many levels. As an American, I feel threatened and confused, where only yesterday I fe
3、lt proud and invincible . As a citizen of the global community, I have been shocked into the reality of the reach of global terrorism. As a human being, I am appalled at the cruelty and inhumanity of these acts of terrorism. As someone who hopes to understand unspeaka
4、ble acts, I am at a loss to understand this one, perhaps because it hits so close to home. I know only these things: Someone, for some reason, has decided to strike at the United States. Despite the many people killed, the intended target of this attack was American p
5、ower. The goal was to strike a paralyzing fear into the hearts and minds of all citizens of the U.S., and perhaps its allies as well. Thus, we—all of us— are the real targets of this attack. This explains why many of us, even those of us who were not near the attacks,
6、 or who knew no one affected by them, felt this tragedy so deeply. Yet we must not succumb to fear, for if we do the terrorists have won. Surely our lives will be different now. We may be more aware, more inconvenienced, more insecure. But we must learn to deal with t
7、his tragedy and to move on, to live our lives as fully and as entirely as before. I came to my office today, even though classes here have been cancelled, to live my life as normally as possible, for to do so in the face of yesterday’s terrorist attacks is itself an a
8、ct of defiance.我是学政治暴力为生，但我也很动摇和不确定如何反应。当我今天坐在这里在我的办公室，只有几英里从静止燃烧的五角大楼，屠宰在我的家乡纽约图片主宰了我的想法。这使得它很难专心工作，这让日常的东西显得如此微不足道。现在只有二十四
