It’s amazing how the world can change in a day. On Monday we were going about our normal daily routines and on Tuesday we were looking at perhaps the opening round of the next world war. Most of us who grew up in the sixties and seventies expected the next war to be the big clash of giants in Germany, but we of all people should know that expecting the next war to be like the last will leave us surprised. So now we are facing “asymmetrical war”, a war of no front line, no boundaries, a war where even the enemy may be unknown. Let us hope and pray that America and the West have the resolve to follow this through to the end. Terrorism is the scourge of the modern world, I have lost friends in Ireland and South Africa to this scourge and it is now time to call enough! As President Bush said, if you are not with us, you are with the terrorists.
I am sure that all our thoughts and prayers are with the many, many bereaved from this tragedy.