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The Rejected Windfall A26 Ø N THE NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIALS/LETTERS TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2011 Bin Laden Aftermath: A Rush of Emotion TO THE EDITOR: On rare occasions the death of one’s Re “Killing Evil Doesn’t Make Us blood enemy may be a justified cause of ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER JR., Publisher Evil” (column, May 8): celebration. While I did not join the un- Thanks to Maureen Dowd for getting derstandable public celebrations of Bin Founded in 1851 The News Sections The Business Management it exactly right. Those who bemoan Osa- Laden’s death, they brought me consid- BILL KELLER, Executive Editor SCOTT H. HEEKIN-CANEDY, President, General Manager erable satisfaction. ADOLPH S. OCHS ma bin Laden’s death as unjustified are JILL ABRAMSON, Managing Editor DENISE F. WARREN, Senior V.P., Chief Advertising Officer, Publisher 1896-1935 naïve at best, or may be far removed WILLIAM WINSTON NEWBILL JOHN M. GEDDES, Managing Editor General Manager, NYTimes.com from anyone who experienced a loss on Dallas, May 8, 2011 YASMIN NAMINI, Senior V.P., Marketing and Circulation, ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER WILLIAM E. SCHMIDT, Deputy Managing Editor 9/11. Publisher 1935-1961 General Manager, Reader Applications Assistant Managing Editors ALEXIS BURYK, Senior V.P., Advertising That September morning neither I nor TO THE EDITOR: ORVIL E. DRYFOOS DEAN BAQUET GERALD MARZORATI ROLAND A. CAPUTO, Senior V.P., Chief Financial Officer my children knew whether their father, Re “Killing Evil Doesn’t Make Us Publisher 1961-1963 TOM BODKIN MICHELE MCNALLY THOMAS K. CARLEY, Senior V.P., Planning who worked at 7 World Trade Center, Evil,” by Maureen Dowd, and “Why We SUSAN EDGERLEY JIM ROBERTS TERRY L. HAYES, Senior V.P., Operations and Labor ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER was alive or dead. A woman I worked Celebrate a Killing,” by Jonathan Haidt GLENN KRAMON Publisher 1963-1992 MICHAEL VALENTINE, V.P., Human Resources with rushed home because her daughter, (Op-Ed, May 8): The Opinion Pages knowing she was about to die in the con- As someone who experienced 9/11 MARTIN GOTTLIEB, Editor, Global Editions flagration, had made an anguished from my home about a mile from the ANDREW ROSENTHAL, Editorial Page Editor phone call to say goodbye. Children of a World Trade Center, I can honestly say I CARLA ANNE ROBBINS, Deputy Editorial Page Editor family I knew were left without a father. TRISH HALL, Deputy Editorial Page Editor felt no jubilation when I heard the news Thankfully, mine were not. of Bin Laden’s death. Instead, all the While the eruption of spontaneous cel- sadness of that dreadful day came back. ebrations after Bin Laden’s killing may The killing seemed to me yet another have disturbed many, I believe that the part of what Robert Klitzman, the broth- outpouring came from a sense of pro- er of a 9/11 victim, has called the “never- The Rejected Windfall found relief that someone who had threatened their lives every day for 10 Some governors, like Florida’s Rick Scott, are turning their backs on federal dollars years had finally been dealt a measure of justice. After Gov. Rick Scott of Florida thoughtlessly reject- sions. Some of those states are led by Republicans: Gov. So please let us stop the collective handwringing and thank those responsi- ed $2.4 billion in federal aid for a high-speed rail line, he Rick Snyder of Michigan happily stood beside Transporta- ble for removing Bin Laden from our claimed last month that he was doing a huge favor for the tion Secretary Ray LaHood on Monday to accept nearly midst — the Navy Seals and President national Treasury, which he expected would give away $200 million to upgrade the rail line between Dearborn Obama, who made a brave decision. the money in tax cuts. That was nonsense, of course; Mr. and Kalamazoo, the bulk of the Chicago-Detroit corridor. DOLORES SOFFIENTINI Scott was really doing a favor for train passengers in the The difference between states that want better infra- Holmdel, N.J., May 8, 2011 Northeast, Midwest and California, which were given $2 structure and those that do not is likely to grow in coming billion of his money on Monday for better service. years. Some states will accept federal aid and tax them- TO THE EDITOR: Florida voters might want to think about that deci- selves to pay for better trains, upgraded roads and Killing evil does not, indeed, make us sion as they sit in traffic jams, burning up $4-a-gallon gas- bridges, and effective water systems. Others will not. evil, but could we not have reached this oline. In fact, some of them clearly have thought about it In the Northeast, several Amtrak corridors will be up- same end without leaving so many bod- ies strewn along the path to justice? because Mr. Scott now has some of the worst approval rat- graded, including a sliver of the Acela line and the Empire Measured intelligence and leadership ings of a Florida official in the last decade. line through upstate New York. The Chicago-St. Louis cor- from President Obama were key. Just as HANNAH K. LEE He has joined other newly elected Republican gover- ridor will be improved, and $300 million will be invested in important were intelligence gathering in nors so rigidly opposed to the Obama administration that the high-speed project between Los Angeles and San the field and synthesis of that knowl- ending cycle of destruction” (“My Sister, they are willing to harm their states to score points. The Francisco. Texas is accepting $15 million to start work on a edge. Finally, precision by a small team My Grief,” Op-Ed, May 4). Whether or in carrying out the surgical strike en- not the killing of Bin Laden was a good result is a crazy quilt of state relationships with Washing- fast line between Dallas and Houston. tactical move, or a moral act, you have to ton, stitched more with ideology than reason. Transportation is not all that is at stake. Last year, abled by that intelligence brought fru- ition to the 10-year manhunt. wonder at the depravity in the way hu- None of the money in Monday’s announcement will Utah Republican lawmakers tried to refuse $101 million in One can only wonder, however, if after man beings deal with one another. It’s nothing to cheer about. be going to Wisconsin, for example, where Gov. Scott federal money intended to save teachers’ jobs; they 9/11 we had focused exclusively on the Walker has also decided that his strapped state could do backed down when it was clear that Washington could criminal investigation— including the MARY LYN MAISCOTT without rail improvements and the construction jobs that send the money directly to school districts. Oklahoma and gathering, sharing and synthesis of in- New York, May 8, 2011 go with them. Nor will it go to Ohio, where Gov. John Kas- other states have rejected federal dollars connected to formation — could two wars, about 6,000 ich preferred rejectionism to the improvement of rail serv- health care reform. Earlier this year, Missouri nearly re- American deaths, over 30,000 casualties, TO THE EDITOR: ice among the state’s largest cities, which could have pro- jected extended jobless benefits for 10,000 residents after and many more Afghan and Iraqi deaths Jonathan Haidt fairly distinguishes have been avoided? patriotism and love for country from a duced 16,000 jobs. a handful of Republicans said the money was wasteful. Did we really need to obliterate Af- more racist and hostile brand of na- Instead, it will go to 15 states that have more farsight- Refusenik Republicans glorify shopworn principles ghanistan and Iraq to get the guy who tionalism. It may be that the flag-waving ed leadership, who understand the important role federal like smaller government and states’ rights. They will have committed mass murder on Sept. 11? college students in front of the White dollars can play in stimulating the economy, moving peo- to defend them to their voters when the public hears the JOHN E. COLBERT House and in Times Square were simply ple quickly from place to place and reducing tailpipe emis- passenger trains whistling from the next state over. Chicago, May 8, 2011 rejoicing in their “desire to show solidar- ity with fellow citizens.” The line be- tween patriotism and nationalism is, TO THE EDITOR: however, much thinner than Mr. Haidt As a lawyer who takes the rule of law implies. New Attacks on Women’s Rights quite seriously, I was thankful that Mau- We must remember how quickly the reen Dowd showed common sense in her common purpose that followed 9/11 — The House passes a sweeping bill to deny access to abortion thoughtful discussion of the killing of the flags, the memorials and candlelight Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden was a vigils — quickly devolved into an envi- With the help of 16 Democrats, House Republicans bill imposes no such restrictions on large corporations. proud, self-appointed mass murderer of ronment of fear, an erosion of civil liber- passed a bill the other day with the narrow-seeming title The measure also eliminates the medical-expense de- civilians, including women and children. ties and an ugly rush to invade a sover- He proclaimed his own guilt for crimes of the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act. eign nation on the basis of shoddy intelli- duction for most abortions and ends the availability of re- against humanity and openly planned to The measure, which came just weeks after the furor imbursement for abortion costs from medical savings ac- gence.
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