The Algebra of Infinite Justice
As the US prepares to wage
a new kind of war,
Arundhati Roy challenges
the instinct for vengance
Arundhati Roy
September 28, 2001

"What we're witnessing here is the spectacle of the world's most powerful country reaching reflexively, angrily, for an old instinct to fight a new kind of war"

In the aftermath of the unconscionable September 11 suicide attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Centre, an American newscaster said: "Good and evil rarely manifest themselves as clearly as they did last Tuesday. People who we don't know massacred people who we do. And they did so with contemptuous glee." Then he broke down and wept.. . . .

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