Zeldman zu Terrorismus

Jeffrey Zeldman schreibt in seinen Artikel Rome, Madrid, Iraq, New York u. a. folgende bemerkenswerte Sätze:

What to do about mass murderers? Fight them of course. But not by waging preemptive wars against countries that had nothing to do with 9-11. It is like attacking cancer with machine guns. There’s a lot of smoke, a lot of racket, a lot of blowing bystanders to bits. But after the smoke clears and the funeral parades trudge on, not one cancer cell has been cured.

Although it is hard for many Americans to understand, between Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, many people in this world are more afraid of the U.S. than they are of terrorists whose objective is to wipe modern civilization off the face of the earth.

Wenn auch die US-Regierung fähig zu solchen Einsichten wäre, müsste man zumindest vor den USA keine Angst mehr haben.