27 Sep. - 3 Oct. 2001
Issue No.553
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Al-Ahram Weekly Online 27 Sep. - 3 Oct. 2001 Issue No.553 |
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Power and justice
The story of the attacks on the United States has a moral, but sadly nobody seems to be heeding it. The moral, or rather the most important of the many morals to be learned from these disastrous events, is that power alone is no guarantee of security. One may have the most highly developed, the most unprecedented weaponry in the history of humanity -- nuclear, biological, chemical and other arms that we have not yet heard of -- and still one may receive a devastating blow.
In the present case, as we have seen, all the terrorists needed were sharp blades; this fact alone demonstrates clearly how insufficient sheer military power is.
The only guarantee of security is justice. Had the United States been more just as the world's leader nobody would have plotted to destroy it.
The attacks mean only one thing: there are those in the world today who feel that US power is being used against them. America's power may indeed liquidate terrorist organisations and crush this or that dissident, but until the injustice ceases, violence and evil will not. The essence of ruling, as the old Arab adage maintains, is justice; the US needs to remove not the evil perpetrators of such crimes but the causes of injustice in the world.
If it wants to rule the world successfully, at any rate, this is what it must do.
Based on an interview by Mohamed Salmawy.
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