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- 2001年9月17日 13時5分
- A New Reality
ALMAR 041/01
09/12/2001
Sep. 17th, Mon, 「アフガニスタン＝Afghanistan＝アフぎゃニスタン」
"-stan"＝state(s)
USMC（＝United States Marine Corps＝合衆国海兵隊）Homepage より
1. The recent terrorist attacks on our nation highlight the new reality
of warfare. The very visible attacks against icons of our democratic
nation and our citizens no longer represent a simple violation of international
law. As was evidenced so graphically both in New York City and Washington,
a new form of open warfare was declared against America, directly targeting
civilian and military personnel and our institutions alike. Our Commander
in Chief has stated we will respond to this act of war, and we will
prevail. As we respond to this tragedy, our focus, as always, is to
mission first and people always. In line with this commitment, I would
like to offer my condolences to those who have suffered the loss of
loved ones. I would like to voice special thoughts and prayers for our
comrades-in-arms in the Army and Navy who appear to have borne the brunt
of the attack at the Pentagon. While the process of accounting for all
personnel, active duty, reserve, veteran, and civilian is not yet complete,
our Corps appears, thus far, to have been spared any loss of life in
Washington. I am not as optimistic with respect to the attack in New
York City. Scores of emergency response personnel and the general public
are bound to be members of the "Marine Family."
2. The very public display of this new form of warfare comes as no surprise
to Marines. Our focus on developing anti-terrorism and force protection
(AT/FP) capabilities across our force continues our tradition of innovation
and transformation. The threats we so visibly faced have fully validated
the reorganizations we have undergone in the past few years, especially
in the Marine Corps Security Force Battalion and our Fleet Anti-Terrorist
Security Team capabilities. Our more recent efforts to incorporate AT/FP
skill sets in all deploying Marine Corps units has proven prescient
in addressing the latest threat to our national security. While our
expeditionary culture remains the centerpiece of our warfighting capability,
the added ability to effectively deal with terrorism is critical today
and will remain one of our core capabilities for the foreseeable future.
3. Our expeditionary culture has once again proven valuable to our nation
and we are poised to respond to the ongoing disaster relief operations
in New York City. In conjunction with the Navy, we have once again demonstrated
the value of the Navy-Marine corps team in responding across the full
spectrum of capabilities that our nation demands. In line with the special
bond between Sailors and Marines, I have offered the full commitment
of Marine Corps capabilities in support of any naval mission, ashore
or afloat. Commanders are directed to reinforce this commitment by seeking
out their Navy counterparts and reinforcing this offer of assistance
wherever it may be needed. While this support includes the full range
of our capabilities, your focus should remain on our ability to support
the AT/FP capabilities we can provide.
4. While we have previously discussed in depth the potential for asymmetric
attack, we have, through the myriad actions and reactions that transpired
on 11 sep 01, experienced this paradigm shift in a most personal fashion.
In order to continue our tradition of innovation we must capture the
lessons we have learned regarding this emergent form of warfare. Commanders
are directed to compile appropriate issues and their potential impact
for the future, and submit them through their advocates for incorporation
into the Marine Corps Expeditionary Force Development System. Reality
is that what we have faced in the past 24 hours is not a single, isolated
event. Yesterday's attack is the most visible manifestation of a war
for which we have prepared through organizational change, and for which
our expeditionary capabilities will be highlighted and in great demand.
5. The manner in which we react over the days and months ahead will
once again highlight our readiness and adaptability to meet the nation's
needs across the spectrum of operations. It will also visibly reinforce
that we are always ready and always faithful.
Semper Fidelis,
J.L. Jones
General
US Marine Corps
Commandant
TA追記：
Q：米国が国家非常態勢下で、合衆国に足止めを食った人たちはどうなったか？
A：もち、ホテル代は自腹（じばら）がほとんど。
- 2001年9月１7日 07時0分
- Sep. 17th, Mon, 「アフガニスタン」「パキスタン」「・・・スタン」
from White House Homepage
Sept. 16, 2001
President: Today We Mourned, Tomorrow We Work
"Today, people from all walks of life gave thanks for the heroes; they
mourn the dead; they ask for God's good graces on the families who mourn,
and tomorrow the good people of America go back to their shops, their
fields, American factories, and go back to work...."
Remarks by the President Upon Arrival
The South Lawn
3:23 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Today, millions of Americans mourned and prayed, and
tomorrow we go back to work. Today, people from all walks of life gave
thanks for the heroes; they mourn the dead; they ask for God's good
graces on the families who mourn, and tomorrow the good people of America
go back to their shops, their fields, American factories, and go back
to work.
Our nation was horrified, but it's not going to be terrorized. We're
a great nation. We're a nation of resolve. We're a nation that can't
be cowed by evil-doers. I've got great faith in the American people.
If the American people had seen what I had seen in New York City, you'd
have great faith, too. You'd have faith in the hard work of the rescuers;
you'd have great faith because of the desire for people to do what's
right for America; you'd have great faith because of the compassion
and love that our fellow Americans are showing each other in times of
need.
I also have faith in our military. And we have got a job to do - just
like the farmers and ranchers and business owners and factory workers
have a job to do. My administration has a job to do, and we're going
to do it. We will rid the world of the evil-doers. We will call together
freedom loving people to fight terrorism.
And on on this day of - on the Lord's Day, I say to my fellow Americans,
thank you for your prayers, thank you for your compassion, thank you
for your love for one another. And tomorrow when you get back to work,
work hard like you always have. But we've been warned. We've been warned
there are evil people in this world. We've been warned so vividly -
and we'll be alert. Your government is alert. The governors and mayors
are alert that evil folks still lurk out there.
As I said yesterday, people have declared war on America, and they have
made a terrible mistake, because this is a fabulous country. Our economy
will come back. We'll still be the best farmers and ranchers in the
world. We're still the most innovative entrepreneurs in the world. On
this day of faith, I've never had more faith in America than I have
right now.
Q Mr. President, are you worried this crisis might send us into a recession?
THE PRESIDENT: David, I understand that there are some businesses that
hurt as a result of this crisis. Obviously, New York City hurts. Congress
acted quickly. We worked together, the White House and the Congress,
to pass a significant supplemental. A lot of that money was dedicated
to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, as it should be. People will
be amazed at how quickly we rebuild New York; how quickly people come
together to really wipe away the rubble and show the world that we're
still the strongest nation in the world.
But I have great faith in the resiliency of the economy. And no question
about it, this incident affected our economy, but the markets open tomorrow,
people go back to work and we'll show the world.
Q Mr. President, do you believe Osama bin Laden's denial that he had
anything to do with this?
THE PRESIDENT: No question he is the prime suspect. No question about
that.
Q Mr. President, can you describe your conversation with the President
of Pakistan and the specific comments he made to you? And, in addition
to that, do you see other - you've asked Saudi Arabia to help out, other
countries?
THE PRESIDENT: John, I will - obviously, I made a call to the leader
of Pakistan. We had a very good, open conversation. And there is no
question that he wants to cooperate with the United States. I'm not
at liberty to detail specifically what we have asked him to do. In the
course of this conduct of this war against terrorism, I'll be asked
a lot, and members of my administration will be asked a lot of questions
about our strategies and tactics. And in order to protect the lives
of people that will be involved in different operations, I'm not at
liberty to talk about it and I won't talk about it.
But I can tell you that the response from Pakistan; Prime Minister Vajpayee
today, of India, Saudi Arabia, has been very positive and very straightforward.
They know what my intentions are. They know my intentions are to find
those who did this, find those who encouraged them, find them who house
them, find those who comfort them, and bring them to justice.
I made that very clear. There is no doubt in anybody's mind with whom
I've had a conversation about the intent of the United States. I gave
them ample opportunity to say they were uncomfortable with our goal.
And the leaders you've asked about have said they were comfortable.
They said, we understand, Mr. President, and we're with you.
Q Mr. President, the Attorney General is going to ask for enhanced law
enforcement authority to surveil and - things to disrupt terrorism that
might be planned here in the United States. What will that mean for
the rights of Americans? What will that mean -
THE PRESIDENT: Terry, I ask you to talk to the Attorney General about
that subject. He'll be prepared to talk about it publicly at some point
in time. But what he is doing is, he's reflecting what I said earlier
in my statement, that we're facing a new kind of enemy, somebody so
barbaric that they would fly airplanes into buildings full of innocent
people. And, therefore, we have to be on alert in America. We're a nation
of law, a nation of civil rights. We're also a nation under attack.
And the Attorney General will address that in a way that I think the
American people will understand.
We need to go back to work tomorrow and we will. But we need to be alert
to the fact that these evil-doers still exist. We haven't seen this
kind of barbarism in a long period of time. No one could have conceivably
imagined suicide bombers burrowing into our society and then emerging
all in the same day to fly their aircraft - fly U.S. aircraft into buildings
full of innocent people - and show no remorse. This is a new kind of
-- a new kind of evil. And we understand. And the American people are
beginning to understand. This crusade, this war on terrorism is going
to take a while. And the American people must be patient. I'm going
to be patient.
But I can assure the American people I am determined, I'm not going
to be distracted, I will keep my focus to make sure that not only are
these brought to justice, but anybody who's been associated will be
brought to justice. Those who harbor terrorists will be brought to justice.
It is time for us to win the first war of the 21st century decisively,
so that our children and our grandchildren can live peacefully into
the 21st century.
Q Mr. President, you've declared we're at war and asked those who wear
the uniform to get ready. Should the American public also be ready for
the possibility of casualties in this war?
THE PRESIDENT: Patsy, the American people should know that my administration
is determined to find, to get them running and to hunt them down, those
who did this to America. Now, I want to remind the American people that
the prime suspect's organization is in a lot of countries - it's a widespread
organization based upon one thing: terrorizing. They can't stand freedom;
they hate what America stands for. So this will be a long campaign,
a determined campaign - a campaign that will use the resources of the
United States to win.
They have roused a mighty giant. And make no mistake about it: we're
determined. Oh, there will be times when people don't have this incident
on their minds, I understand that. There will be times down the road
where citizens will be concerned about other matters, and I completely
understand that. But this administration, along with those friends of
ours who are willing to stand with us all the way through will do what
it takes to rout terrorism out of the world.
Q Mr. President, in your conversation with Pakistan's leader, was there
any request or demand you made of him that he failed to satisfy?
THE PRESIDENT: The leader of Pakistan has been very cooperative. He
has agreed with our requests to aid our nation to hunt down, to find,
to smoke out of their holes the terrorist organization that is the prime
suspect. And I am pleased with his response. We will continue to work
with Pakistan and India. We will work with Russia. We will work with
the nations that one would have thought a couple of years ago would
have been impossible to work with - to bring people to justice. But
more than that, to win the war against terrorist activity.
The American people are used to a conflict where there was a beachhead
or a desert to cross or known military targets. That may occur. But
right now we're facing people who hit and run. They hide in caves. We'll
get them out.
The other day I said, not only will we find those who have affected
America, or who might affect America in the future, we'll also deal
with those who harbor them.
Q Mr. President, would you confirm what the Vice President said this
morning, that at one point during this crisis you gave an order to shoot
down any civilian airliner that approached the Capitol? Was that a difficult
decision to make?
THE PRESIDENT: I gave our military the orders necessary to protect Americans,
do whatever it would take to protect Americans. And of course that's
difficult. Never did anybody's thought process about how to protect
America did we ever think that the evil-doers would fly not one, but
four commercial aircraft into precious U.S. targets - never. And so,
obviously, when I was told what was taking place, when I was informed
that an unidentified aircraft was headed to the heart of the capital,
I was concerned. I wasn't concerned about my decision; I was more concerned
about the lives of innocent Americans. I had realized there on the ground
in Florida we were under attack. But never did I dream we would have
been under attack this way.
That's why I say to the American people we've never seen this kind of
evil before. But the evil-doers have never seen the American people
in action before, either - and they're about to find out.
Thank you all very much.
END 3:36 P.M. EDT
TA追記：ーstan＝スたァーン＝state＝「国」
例）パキスタン、アフガニスタン、カザフスタン・・・
TA追追記：
99．我々は皆国家のため命を捨てる覚悟をしていた。
＝ We were all ready to lay down our lives(ライヴ) for the country.
p. 190 「英作文便覧（べんらん）」評論
- 2001年9月17日 04時9分
- Sep. 17th, Mon. "Toughest Decision"
September 16 1:39 PM ET
Cheney Recalls Toughest Choices on Attack Day
By Randall Mikkelsen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was the toughest decision on a nightmarish
day -- to shoot down civilian airliners if they threatened the U.S.
Capitol or White House after attacks on New York and Washington, Vice
President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) said on Sunday.
``The toughest decision was this decision of whether or not we would
intercept commercial aircraft on the day of the attacks,'' Cheney told
NBC's ``Meet the Press'' program on Sunday.
His interview was his first appearance since he was whisked away on
Thursday to the presidential retreat of Camp David, Maryland, to keep
him at a safe distance from Bush.
The two were reunited at Camp David this weekend for government meetings
on the crisis set off Tuesday when hijackers slammed jetliners into
the World Trade Center and Pentagon (news - web sites).
Recalling last Tuesday's attacks, Cheney said he was physically picked
up and rushed by Secret Service agents to an underground shelter at
the White House in response to fears of an airliner attack on the building.
``They don't ... ask politely, they came in and said, 'Sir we have to
leave immediately' and grabbed me. Your feet touch the floor periodically,
but they're bigger than I am and they hoisted me up and moved very rapidly
down the hallway,'' he said.
He said he then urged Bush not to return to Washington from Florida
immediately after the attacks. ``I said, 'Delay your return. We don't
know what's going on here, but it looks like we've been targeted,'''
he said.
He said he discussed with Bush what the president should say in his
first statement acknowledging the possibility of a terrorist attack.
Cheney said he is convinced that a telephone threat against Air Force
One was credible, but acknowledged it could have been a hoax. ``It may
have been phoned in by a crank, but in the midst of what was going on
there was no way to know that.''
Bush has been criticized for delays in returning to Washington and for
the White House handling -- seen by some as overly political -- of its
belated disclosure of the threat against Air Force One. The White House
has said the caller used code words that raised the credibility of the
threat.
But Cheney said the hardest choice was the evidently unprecedented decision
to shoot down, if necessary, a commercial aircraft within the United
States -- a decision he said Bush made on Cheney's recommendation. All
the hijacked planes crashed before the order could be executed.
``The president made the decision ... that if the plane would not divert,
if they wouldn't pay any attention to instructions to move away from
the city, as a last resort, our pilots were authorized to take them
out,''
``People say that's a horrendous decision to make. Well it is. You've
got an airplane full of American citizens, civilians captured by terrorists,
and are you going to in fact shoot it down, obviously and kill all those
Americans on board,'' Cheney said.
But he said the United States ``absolutely'' would have been justified
in shooting down the two aircraft that hit the World Trade Center or
Pentagon, which have left more than 5,000 dead or missing.
``As it turned out, we did not have to execute on that authorization,''
Cheney said. ``But there were a few moments when we thought we might,
when planes were incoming and we didn't know whether or not they were
problem aircraft until they had diverted and gone elsewhere.''
He said a fourth hijacked plane which crashed near Pittsburgh was headed
for Washington, possibly the U.S. Capitol, and came down after passengers
struggled with the hijackers.
``I think the Washington part of the attack was significantly interfered
with,'' he said.
But the plane which hit the Pentagon had been on course for the White
House, then diverted, circled, and slammed into the Pentagon, he said.
``As best we can tell, they came initially at the White House.''
He speculated that the plane, on approach from the west, diverted after
encountering difficulties locating the White House from the air. The
White House is nestled between the larger Eisenhower Executive Office
building to the west and the Treasury Department (news - web sites)
to the East.
``When it entered the danger zone ... is when they grabbed me and evacuated
me to the basement,'' he said.
- 2001年9月17日 02時5分
- Sep. 17th, Mon. "Who is going to put a stop to a possible war when
it starts? Japan? No, the Breat Britain, maybe."(TA)
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２．『目で見るセンター英語』＝”jump-english”＝F類（女性）も安心して読める頁を目指しています。
例） station（スティション）
vacation（ヴァケィション）
mass communication（マスコミュニケィション）
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３．『目で見るエスペラント』＝全世界で100万人の話ﾒがいるエスペラント語。エスペラントはまだ死んではいない・・・
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TA追記＝４回チャンスを下さい。怒るまえに・・・（TA）
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