HEADLINE: World mourns 9-11 victims but criticizes US response

[Bluebear]

HONG KONG - Newspapers Monday remembered the victims of the September 11 attacks and condemned those responsible, but many also expressed deep unease at the US government’s reaction to the atrocity.

On the fifth anniversary of Al Qaeda’s assault on New York and Washington, editorials united in condemning the attacks, which stunned the world and briefly rallied global opinion behind the United States. Papers said many people were still grappling with the immensity of what happened that day.

However many papers said Washington had destroyed the reservoir of good will through the way it had prosecuted its “war-on-terror’, most notably by invading Iraq and refusing to abide by the Geneva Conventions.

Britain’s Independent newspaper remembered five years ago ”images of a world briefly united in sympathy for an America reeling and grieving from the attack on the Twin Towers and the deaths of almost 3,000 New Yorkers. How moving but dated they seem today,” the paper said, lamenting the daily slaughter in Iraq, the nuclear crisis in Iran, the growing insurgency in Afghanistan and the failure to address the Israeli-Palestine issue.

The Financial Times said: “The way the Bush administration has trampled on the international rule of law and Geneva Conventions, while abrogating civil liberties and expanding executive power at home, has done huge damage not only to America’s reputation but, more broadly, to the attractive power of Western values.” MORE......


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[acmavm]

1. What? Didn't they see the crapumentary last night?

Where's their admiration for the 'hero's of 911?

edit: :sarcasm:

[annabanana]

2. Thank you, World.

Thank you for keeping your eyes clear. Thank you for the sympathy for the victims of this horrible attack. Thank you for making real journalism available to us so we can see what has become of our Country in the years since.

We are still in pain, and the pain has been compounded by the disastrous response of our illegal, criminal administration.

[BootinUp]

3. We know. We don't agree with him either

thought you'd like to know.

[izzie]

4. Bush was sure the wrong man at the wrong time. No class

To have a statesmen at this time would have been nice but I guess we get what we have to add some wit into this. I think Gore would have become a great man at this time. He seems to be a man that grows each year. He sees a big picture of the world. Bush is a 'little' man. This is just my feeling.

[dweller]

5. papers ...

dp

[Bluebear]

6. "We miss you so much"

Indeed :(