Can't wait to hear what Ms. Rice has to say in public tomorrow. And no, I don't think she or anyone should apologize for the events of 9/11. They should apologize for failing to imagine that 9/11 was possible, which is what I think Clark meant. (My dad was talking about a failure of imagination long before Freidman's NYT column - see April 2, 2:22 PM post.)

An apology should be made by every expert, pundit, analyst or politician that first, consider themselves smarter than everyone else and above judgment, and second, that lacked the imagination to foresee that one day terrorists would use our own symbols of progress to take us down. And while Newsday's Paul Vitello should have elaborated on his "lack of empathy" failure, his column on the blame game at Mepham High School makes some interesting connections.