[Kate22]

Unconstrained by any superpower rival or system of global governance, the US giant has rewritten the global financial and trading system in its own interest; ripped up a string of treaties it finds inconvenient; sent troops to every corner of the globe; bombed Afghanistan, Sudan, Yugoslavia and Iraq without troubling the United Nations; maintained a string of murderous embargos against recalcitrant regimes; and recklessly thrown its weight behind Israel's 34-year illegal military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as the Palestinian intifada rages.

But for every "terror network" that is rooted out, another will emerge - until the injustices and inequalities that produce them are addressed.

Good post and for once something said in The Guardian actually makes some sense. I think you're absolutely right - no matter how awful this is, there must be a sense of proportion.

Any counter attack against a nation (and not the actual perpetrators, who will be in hiding somewhere else anyway) will kill, maim and cause untold misery to another nation.

Innocent people are the same all over the world and bombing them is terrorism, no matter who pushes the buttons.

[BlueLancer]

See 48 ... that applies to your statements as well.