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Dear Professor Thornton,

I was moved and encouraged to read your commentary on the terrorist attack against America. I too saw the BBC show in question and was equally appalled. It was particularly disheartening to listen to such youthful people filled with such ancient hatred and ignorance. But it is everywhere.

Last night, again on the BBC, Henry Kissinger had to take a BBC reporter to task for implying America somehow deserved its fate in the question, "Do you think America should reconsider a foreign policy that stirs up such hatred in the world?" Similar questions are populating the evening news in practically every country on the continent. At a weekend cocktail party
among the well-educated and the well-employed I was shocked to hear as a last note to a discussion of the attack, "Yes, but Americans are so....arrogant." 

Being a foreign language-challenged American, I never knew previously the full, true, and bitter meaning of schadenfreude. I don't know which is worse - raw and blind hatred or those who hide behind the inauthentic and not so shiny veneer of intellectual objectivity. And it all boils down to just one thing, the most base of our basic human traits - jealousy. It would be laughable, if it were not so sad. 

The smoke of burning flesh and steel may be covering New York, but the powerful stench of envy blankets the whole of the Earth. As a Chinese wise man once said, "The dog with the bone is always in danger."

Greyling Peoples, Amsterdam

Dear Sir,

Your comments (14 Sept) are appreciated.   America is not anti Islamic.  In both Bosnia and Kosovo, Western forces, led by America, intervened on the side of Muslims who were being attacked by Christians.    

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