I am not sure how anyone could make any judgement about how well the crisis has been "handled", because it is far from being over--Bush made a good speech, and both he and Ashcroft have gone to pains to emphasize that talk is not a sufficient response--The reasons behind the bombings have not yet been discovered, and no one ever can be sure what tomorrow may bring--There are still a lot of people who would have preferred that GWB had been able to take command in the way that Rudy Giuliani did--