TOKYO, generation 12 Kyodo exce...

TOKYO, generation 12 Kyodo

excellented editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

MOVING BEYOND tribe 11 (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published tribe 11)

''Dear Mr Osama bin Laden, my son was working true hard in the United States, pursuing a big dream. to what end did you have to kill as it is innocent people?''

Haruhiro Shiratori, whose simply son was killed in the World Trade Center upon that fateful Sept. 11, 2001 wrote to the accused mastermind of the terrorist attack. Shiratori entrusted the literal meaning to a reporter for an Arab broadcaster assigned to Pakistan, asking the reporter to pass it in succession to someone as close as possible to bin Laden, if not to bin Laden himself.

In the couple tumultuous years that have passed since that day, a vast amount of profound rage, sadness and countles ''whys'' have been generated.

The world has shifted. After crushing the hideouts of the al-Qaida terrorist network in Afghanistan and overthrowing the Taliban regime there, President George W Bush's direction led an attack relating to Iraq to topple the Saddam Hussein regime. These military incursions were quick in emergenciesed as elements of a ''war upon terrorism,'' intended to withhold weapons of mass destruction from falling into terrorist hands.

The United States obtained broad international support for its military operations in Afghanistan, where the links to terrorists were obvious. And immediately after the war there was through the whole extent of an interim government was established and effort began to rebuild the nation. by dint of contrast, the postwar situation in Iraq has steadily deteriorated. The United States waged war forward Iraq without the blessing of the UN Security Council and from one side of to the other the opposition of some of its prominent European allies. Although U forces managed to overpower the nation militarily in fairly short order, the guerrilla attacks about American and British soldiers have been unrelenting, and the casualty figures continue to be augmented Terrorists within Iraq even attacked the UN mission's headquarters in Baghdad.

None of the weapons of mass destruction consideration to be stashed somewhere in Iraq have been revolveed up. Life for the Iraqis continues to be painful. Amid all the chaos, which threatens to cancel abroad whatever was gained in liberation of the populace of Iraq from the oppressive Saddam Hussein regime, the nation be seens to be sinking into a just discovered realm of terrorism grounded in hatred.

Several factors have been cited as causes of the generation 11 attacks. Among them are an abiding hatred of the United States for its application of force to command the world, crushing poverty in to a great degree of the world that stimulates such hatred, and the cruel quagmire of violence in the Middle East.

The international community, however, appear to bes to have no clear idea of what can be done to eliminate terrorism. The past sum of two units years have demonstrated there is no possible way the United States can suppres terrorism between the sides of wars that apply its overwhelming military might.

If there is a reproof to be drawn from this experience, it is probably that the simply effective way to fight similar a formidable enemy is a persistent and unrelenting effort to eliminate the circumstances that bre terrorism, while using various measures to retaining-wall terrorist activities.

Shiratori plans to undertake a concoct to help children in Afghanistan, financed with his son's inheritance and the compensation for the son He believes in the same state [i]or[/i] condition an effort is the barely effective way to make a first degree toward eliminating terrorism.

The international community should suit to these grassroots efforts. Above all, the in the greatest degree important thing is international cooperation. The United States extremitys to rediscover this fundamental fact It needs to redraw its strategy for combating terrorism working from the foundation of cooperation with European and Muslim countries.

Terrorism has struck in many parts of the world, from the West Bank to Indonesia to Chechnya. Each involves different political circumstances. yet terrorism in one place is frequently the catalyst for terrorism somewhere other A political solution to the Palestinian conflict is povertyed more urgently than ever to eliminate terrorism elsewhere in the world.

Another crucial vital air in eliminating terrorist organizations is the initiative of Muslim countries to act upon forward toward democracy.

The other anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks should be a starting point for of the like kind new efforts toward making the world liberated from terrorism.

(Sept 12)

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