An interesting perspective from an Indian woman who is an excelent writer and compassionate thinker:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,559756,00.html

The algebra of infinite justice
by Arundhati Roy

As the US prepares to wage a new kind of war, Arundhati Roy
challenges the instinct for vengance

Saturday September 29, 2001
The Guardian

In the aftermath of the unconscionable September 11 suicide attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Centre, an American newscaster said: "Good and evil rarely manifest themselves as clearly as they did last Tuesday. People who we don't know massacred people who we do. And they did so with contemptuous glee." Then he broke down and wept.

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