The ten years following the tragedy of 9/11 has been a decade or misery and bloodshed. But America has not come anywhere near to achieving its goal. In many ways the entire world changed following the attack.
Billboards are continually warning people to look askance at strangers. The government has taken on the right to spy on its own subjects with a surfeit of cameras and hidden devices proliferating public as well as private buildings. While talking about the fight against terrorism, human rights, law and liberty are being trampled across everywhere.
To commemorate the anniversary solemn ceremonies were held attended by the present and past presidents. It gave the present government an opportunity to reiterate the commitment of America in its war against terror and that it would continue do so until the enemy were defeated.
But despite this show of unity, a poll conducted by Pew Research Center showed that Americans are not unanimous in their support of the policies against terror being adopted by Washington since the last ten years. A mere 25% feel that the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq have reduced the threat of terror. A sizeable number are angry about the government tampering with their personal mails and calls.
The world has seen too much of blood spilt since Bush launched the attack against Afghanistan. Instead of trying to understand why the Muslim world had been alienated Bush took the 9/11 incident as an excuse to achieve short term goals strategic from the geographic point of view.
The first country to face the anger of the super power of the world was Afghanistan. Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, one time foreign minister of the Taliban, said at a recent interview that the Taliban administration had made an offer to hand over Laden to USA but the latter had remained lukewarm and indifferent to it. The Taliban were the first to offer their commiseration to USA following the attack.
The Taliban and the Al Qaeda follow two different ideologies. The former had no bars to opening diplomatic contact with USA. It claims to defend national sovereignty and has its doors open other political groups. But it wants withdrawal of all foreign troops from Afghan soil prior to holding of any peace talks.
The Afghan war is costing America $8 billion each month. This expenditure has led to a dangerous fall in the health of the American economy. Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz noted that when the war against Iraq started eight years ago oil was $25 per barrel. In 2008 it shot up to $140 per barrel!
Billboards are continually warning people to look askance at strangers. The government has taken on the right to spy on its own subjects with a surfeit of cameras and hidden devices proliferating public as well as private buildings. While talking about the fight against terrorism, human rights, law and liberty are being trampled across everywhere.
To commemorate the anniversary solemn ceremonies were held attended by the present and past presidents. It gave the present government an opportunity to reiterate the commitment of America in its war against terror and that it would continue do so until the enemy were defeated.
But despite this show of unity, a poll conducted by Pew Research Center showed that Americans are not unanimous in their support of the policies against terror being adopted by Washington since the last ten years. A mere 25% feel that the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq have reduced the threat of terror. A sizeable number are angry about the government tampering with their personal mails and calls.
The world has seen too much of blood spilt since Bush launched the attack against Afghanistan. Instead of trying to understand why the Muslim world had been alienated Bush took the 9/11 incident as an excuse to achieve short term goals strategic from the geographic point of view.
The first country to face the anger of the super power of the world was Afghanistan. Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, one time foreign minister of the Taliban, said at a recent interview that the Taliban administration had made an offer to hand over Laden to USA but the latter had remained lukewarm and indifferent to it. The Taliban were the first to offer their commiseration to USA following the attack.
The Taliban and the Al Qaeda follow two different ideologies. The former had no bars to opening diplomatic contact with USA. It claims to defend national sovereignty and has its doors open other political groups. But it wants withdrawal of all foreign troops from Afghan soil prior to holding of any peace talks.
The Afghan war is costing America $8 billion each month. This expenditure has led to a dangerous fall in the health of the American economy. Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz noted that when the war against Iraq started eight years ago oil was $25 per barrel. In 2008 it shot up to $140 per barrel!