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Vice President Richard Cheney declared: “We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history’s latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power” (News, caption, Sept. 12).

Would that it were so.

In fact the tragic diversion of our armed forces on a wild goose chase in Iraq has done exactly that, for it has allowed the real perpetrators of Sept. 11, 2001’s, terrorism to escape our wrath and live to terrorize another day.