A report studies the various ways that the US could have responded to the September 2001 terrorist attacks, other than by war, which could have done more good and less harm.

It should be noted that the US actually won the war in Afghanistan: the Taliban offered complete surrender before the end of 2001. The Bush regime inexplicably preferred to continue the war.

The US could also have secured the stated goals diplomatically without a war. The Taliban offered in the summer of 2001 to kick out al-Qa'ida.

Apparently, Dubya wanted that war for other reasons and, having got an excuse, was not going to let it go.

Patients who had Covid-19, even if they were not hospitalized for it, have an elevated probability of heart disease a year later. This is on form or aspect of "long Covid".

This demonstrates the importance of protecting people from catching Covid-19 at all, to the extent this is possible.

(satire) *Declining Bee Population Linked To Increase In Bees' Pornography [use].*

Using porn works, like other works of authorship, does not use them up. They remain and can be used by many other humans, or bees. So please do not call this "consuming" them.

*West Virginia students to stage walkout over Christian revival at high school.*

I'm heartened that there are students in the school who recognize that proselytizing in a public school is intolerable.

* Instead of ramping up the threats, western nations should be offering Vladimir Putin a ladder to climb down.*

This is made more difficult by his practice of saying, "You need to offer me a way to climb down from the incipient tantrum that I've talked myself into. To do that, start by giving me the concessions I have demanded."