"During his final week in office, George Bush claimed: "There's still an enemy out there that would like to inflict damage on America - Americans. . . . The most important job [for] the next president is . . . to protect the American people from another attack." I doubt that many people who heard or read this claim noticed its subtle ambiguity. America is equated with Americans. But are the two really synonymous?

For instance, who or what was really attacked on 9/11? The most specific answer is the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Neither separately nor both together can be equated with America. Were the people in those three buildings attacked? In a sense, I suppose they were, but who were they and how many were there? The question is almost impossible to answer accurately. Why?"

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