INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
When, on 11th September 2001, two passenger planes demolished the Twin Towers in New York, another flew into the Pentagon and a fourth crashed in Pennsylvania, Islamic terrorism not only killed almost three thousand people, but achieved an echo planet-wide, showing the world its tremendous ability to destabilize and destroy.
The consequences of the attack had an effect that can still be felt in all international relations, marked by the militaristic intervention of the Bush Administration, which threw itself into a unilateral, confused strategy in the fight against terrorism, first of all in the shape of the Afghanistan war and later, despite protests the world over, of an Iraqi war which has degenerated into a labyrinthine fiasco; a strategy moreover involving spurious economic and geopolitical interests, and which has largely nourished the very factors at which the fighting was purportedly directed.
Today the world seems even less safe than it did in 2001. Only changing the US foreign policy and paying real attention to the problems suffered by the conflictive regions of the planet will reduce the tension existing today.