08.07.2005 16:45

I believe we will have to live with the risk that something like yesterday's attacks could happen anytime. Everywhere. At least if you want to live in a society where you are not permanently controlled and observed. The famous war on terror is very much the war of everybody against those people who wants to cut our liberty and civil rights, violate human rights under the pretext of protection against terror, etc. In this sense United States lost the struggle. They did it by not speaking out loud against their government after 9/11 and confirmed it by reelecting it. (The patriot act, Guantanamo, the lies that lead to the war in Iraq, Abu Ghraib, all this is enough to send those guys to Mars.)
I very much believe we can do better here in Europe. But we must look very carefully at what our political leaders do and what our fellow citizens think. It all starts with the way we treat muslim citizens in our own countries. Wether we are able to distinguish between those bastards who do the killings and thousands who are threatened by it despite of having the same religious affiliation.
You can't erradicate these terrorists with a classical war, by using weapons I mean. The only thing you can do, is to try to change our attitude not only towards the muslim world, but toward all poor countries. This will maybe lessen the impact of radical ideas on people who feel frustrated because they don't see how they will ever get a part of the pie. Maybe this will help in the long term. But certainly there will allways be some crazy idiots.