XOOX. Cilvēks. - March 19th, 2003

After 9/11, millions turned out to pay their respects to the dead, to New York, to the US, and to express their revulsion at the indiscriminate terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Le Monde, France’s foremost newspaper, blazoned ‘We are all Americans’ on its front page. The same sentiment filled the hearts of most of those who, a year and a half later, lit a candle on Sunday 16 March.
The tragedy for America is that in the eighteen months from 9/11 to 3/16 the Bush administration did not just throw away worldwide support and sympathy. It achieved something much harder: it turned support into opposition.

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