September 05, 2002
US still hasn't got the message
A YEAR ago this month, the world stood still as it watched horrific images of America's iconic buildings on fire. Among the clichés that rolled off the tongues of pundits was that the world had changed forever.
And the world did indeed change. The US became more arrogant and went about conducting foreign policy as if nobody else existed. Combating terrorism suddenly became the most pressing issue on the world agenda. Xenophobia was legitimised as a security measure. Rogue states were invited back into the mainstream fold, so long as they threw their weight behind the "war on terrorism". And multilateral institutions such as the UN and international protocols on human rights and the conduct of war were thrown out the window as the US took charge of Planet Earth.
Posted at September 05, 2002 01:21 PM | World
