From: "Liev Schreiber" To: "Tell Schreiber" Robinson" , "Steve Dontanville" , "Juliet Binoche" , "Ghisalaine Maxwell" Altshul" -, "Chuck Everedd" <[email protected]> Subject: Fw: Frank Rich op ed Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 18:33:53 +0000 "Phil "Jesse Cromwell" , "Serena "Andrei Serban" Original Message From: To: <[email protected]>; < >; Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 1:17 PM Subject: Frank Rich op ed September 15, 2001 JOURNAL The Day Before Tuesday By FRANK RICH (Unable to display imagejeing human, you first think of those you love. Then, if you are lucky enough to find them safe, you grieve for those who are lost — their faces still smiling out expectantly from downtown's new quilt of mass death, the vast patchwork of fliers headlined MISSING. Then you grieve for the city whose once indelible profile was mutilated, just like that, on one beautiful September morning. After that you think of your country, and another kind of shock sets in. Something has been lost there too, but not all of what's gone may be a cause for mourning. We live in a different America today than we did only the day before Tuesday. Yes, as it's incanted hourly, we have lost our untroubled freedom of movement that we consider a birthright. We have lost our illusion of impregnability. But beneath those visceral imperatives an entire culture has been transformed. This week's nightmare, it's now clear, has awakened us from a frivolous if not decadent decadelong dream, even as it dumps us into an uncertain future we had never bargained for. The dream was simple — that we could have it all without having to pay any price, and that national suffering of almost any kind could be domesticated into an experience of virtual terror akin to a theme park ride. The first part of that dream had already started to collapse with the fall of the stock market, the rise in unemployment and the evaporation of the surplus, well before terrorists achieved the lit