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...Briton. Recently, for the first time, I have felt like a stranger in my own country. It will be a long time before I can take a rucksack or other bag on the tube without being looked at suspiciously by fellow passengers and the police, and I do not blame them. The responsibility lies firmly with the terrorists who caused this situation and not with the police or my fellow commuters. It is vital that all Britons stand united and show those who want to divide us, especially terrorists, that they will never succeed. The death of those innocent people...
...India speaks volumes about the complete lack of basic infrastructure and disaster-management techniques in this country. The government machinery was totally overwhelmed by the floods and started providing relief only after the hapless residents resorted to massive street protests. Now we find the bureaucrats playing a blame game. Have these officials given a thought to improving the city's infrastructure and preventing such calamities in the future? If we can build nuclear weapons and launch satellites, why can't we have efficient services and give our citizens better amenities? Abhijit Gatade Bombay...
...Briton. Recently, for the first time, I have felt like a stranger in my own country. It will be a long time before I can take a rucksack or other bag on the tube without being looked at suspiciously by fellow passengers and the police, and I do not blame them. The responsibility lies firmly with the terrorists who caused this situation and not with the police or my fellow commuters. It is vital that all Britons stand united and show those who want to divide us, especially terrorists, that they will never succeed. The death of those innocent people...
...Chief during wartime. Cindy Sheehan deserves better. And U.S. serviceman Casey Sheehan deserved better. John Purifoy Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. Iraq's Nervous Neighbor As your report "inside iran's secret War for Iraq" made clear, the Iranians are attempting to gain influence in Iraq [Aug. 22]. I don't blame them. The U.S. saw fit to invade and occupy a country because of a nonexistent threat. The occupying forces have nothing (religion, language or culture) in common with the Iraqis. Iraq imposed a war on Iran that lasted eight years and killed more than 300,000 Iranians. The future...
Deconstructing Katrina will take years. But it is already clear that the blame can be well distributed, from the White House to emergency-management officials at federal, state and local levels, all the way down to the cops who abandoned their posts in New Orleans. "The system broke," says Susan Cutter, director of the Hazards Research Lab at the University of South Carolina. "A system that cannot airlift water and food to a community that's desperate for it is a system that is broken...