Correction required: Novelist Jonathan Franzen admits that 911 took away his certainty that a pacifist, diplomatic approach is always best. However, he still thinks that Bush is the wrong person to run America:

'He's a silly man. I have nothing good to say about him, really. Nothing good to say about him. And I think it verges on a disaster that he's the man in place at this time.

'One places one's hope in his handlers. I've been issuing spiritual life insurance polices for Colin Powell for more than a year now.' [Today].

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