There's one more thing Mr. Sharon needs to understand: Americans want to destroy this terrorist menace so that we and all other free nations, including Israel, can really enjoy our freedom.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that young Americans, less intimidated than their elders by the terrorist menace, are leading the return to Europe.

Despite the declarations in his book, he turned his back on violence and disassociated from his organization, calling it a "terrorist menace."

(This is why the Hamdan decision was less a rebuke of the presidency than a sign of frustration with Congress's failure to update our laws to deal with the terrorist menace.)

Until and unless Moscow follows the French example, the terrorist menace will not be alleviated.

Common cause in the fight against the "terrorist menace" cannot be effective unless there is respect for human rights in the way the fight is conducted.

Britain regards the threat from the I.R.A. as by far the greatest terrorist menace in Northern Ireland.

The shattering impact of these events galvanized in the United States and Russia a determination to counter the terrorist menace.

Oh, and there's still Hamas, that other implacable terrorist menace, and Syria, that other hostile state.

True, many proud Parisians say they won't be intimidated and are responding with sang-froid to the terrorist menace, but there is no ignoring the new security measures that are now everywhere to be seen.