Attacks on America

Terrorism has never before been a bigger issue than it is today. The problem I have with it is that if America, and indeed the rest of the world, want to combat terrorism, then I don't really think that banning veils etc. is the way to go about it. I admit, catching a train late at night on your own with a group of completly covered women (head to toe) is rather frightening, however in this situation I would just imagine being the woman underneath. When one is wearing a hat or glasses, you do not look the same but inside you feel you look just as normal as everyone else. America stereotypically has an image of stupidity and rashness and the war in Iraq, in ...

Ok, now I am writing this obviously since the Iraq war and everything that has gone on in the UK with the London Bombings. My view is simple, Terrorism is war - what more it is the worst type of war possible, as it hits at innocent (i.e. unarmed and not prepared) people and not an Army for example. Now it is clear that what happened at 911 was a terrible tradegy, many people lost their lives and it truly is horrible that this could be done. Now terrorism has been going on for years, we have had the IRA in the UK, you have terrorists in Spain, Germany and most other regions around the world. I think I can safely say, that recently no ...

Well may I first express my deepest and most profound regret that the events of the past few years ever occurred, I remember feeling like I’d been punched in the gut the day I watched the images of people jumping from the two towers rather than face the inferno within. Yet I feel that as with many things the emotional impact of this tragedy has overshadowed the important issues it highlight and shows, for example the anger many people of the middle east feel with the continued meddling of the US in their region, but also with the fact that it takes events such as these to bring such subjects to the attention of the people of not only America but of the ...