Yet for some reason Tony Blair's words have nibbled away at me for a week. Foreign news is difficult to take in, requiring concentration and the atlas you can't be bothered to find. The news from overseas is often gloomy, a procession of man's inhumanity to man or tales of another natural disaster too monumental to comprehend. Justice yes, revenge, no MANY questions arise in the aftermath of September 11. Some can be answered while others remain the imponderable stuff of philosophy.
Revenge is just too scary THE human story of the atrocity in New York continues to be told.
In that modern twist on disaster, mobile phones helped to write tragedy's script, as many last calls were made in the certainty of death. And what it looked like was the end of the world. Initially it was hard to see what was going on. First one plane had crashed into one of the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York. The TV talking heads, breathless with shock and the effort of running to wherever they were speaking from, speculated about whether this was an accident or a terrorist attack.