Since it is September 11th we’re talking about, perhaps it’s in the fitness of things that we remember what that date means, not only to those who lo… - Arundhati Roy

Had he known that he was about to enter a tunnel whose only egress was his own annihilation, would he have turned away?

To fuel yet another war – this time against Iraq – by cynically manipulating people’s grief, by packaging it for TV specials sponsored by corporations selling detergent and running shoes, is to cheapen and devalue grief, to drain it of meaning. What we are seeing now is a vulgar display of the business of grief, the commerce of grief, the pillaging of even the most private human feelings for political purpose. It is a terrible, violent thing for a State to do to its people.

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.