This hour begins with a commentary by Dan Schorr, where he explains that there were two messages in President Bush's speech last night. One was that the United States will act against the Taliban, and the other that this is a much wider thing in which the entire world is involved...
Billboard: At this hour, European leaders are gathering for an emergency session in Brussels to debate their role in supporting America's War on Terror. In the hours after the attack, eastern and western nations promised solidarity with the USA.
At NATO Headquarters a decision was made to regard September eleventh an assault on all member states. Russia's President called it horrific, and an attack on all civilization. His response to a request for assistance: an unequivocal "Yes." However, in the days since, the promises of support are softening to what one British newspaper call the "Yes...but" syndrome.
From Paris and London and Moscow and elsewhere, we're looking at what overseas support should and might mean for what some cringe at calling "the war on terror."
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Andre Viollaz, assistant chief editor for Europe and Africa for the Agence France-Presse
Margot Light, professor of International Relations and Russia expert at the London School of Economics
Thomas Berger, professor of International Relations and Germany expert at Boston University
