No existe una cura rápida para el terrorismo

Widney Brown, directora general de Derecho Internacional y Política, Amnistía Internacional

Me acuerdo de muchas cosas del 11 de septiembre de 2001.
Como casi todos los neoyorquinos ese día, me acuerdo del aire frío y fresco y del cielo azul sin nubes. Me recuerdo yendo al trabajo, pensando en el ajetreado día que tenía por delante.
Para mí ese día era sólo un día más. Otro día de trabajo como activista de derechos humanos. Y entonces el primer avión hendió el cielo despejado y azul de Nueva York volando demasiado cerca, demasiado bajo, demasiado rápido y con demasiado ruido.

After 9/11, Was War the Only Option? (by Noam Chomsky)

After 9/11, Was War the Only Option?

Noam Chomsky

In These Times, September 5, 2011

This month marks the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world. The impact of the attacks is not in doubt. Just keeping to western and central Asia: Afghanistan is barely surviving, Iraq has been devastated and Pakistan is edging closer to a disaster that could be catastrophic.
On May 1, 2011, the presumed mastermind of the crime, Osama bin Laden, was assassinated in Pakistan. The most immediate significant consequences have also occurred in Pakistan. There has been much discussion of Washington's anger that Pakistan didn't turn over bin Laden. Less has been said about the fury among Pakistanis that the U.S. invaded their territory to carry out a political assassination. Anti-American fervor had already intensified in Pakistan, and these events have stoked it further.