It's the role of Europe. The United States can pursue the bombing perpetrators. But the unjust and imbalanced American policies will remain a fertile soil for creating terrorists everywhere. Then, it is us who will pay the price of Ben Laden's madness and Clinton's perversion. But in Nairobi it was workers in a neighbouring office block who died.
Terrorism unleashes huge waves of hysteria, fury, grief and disbelief.
Such acts of violence affect a nation's sense of security and self. U.S. intelligence is already being accused of failing to protect Americans in embassies abroad. The hardest thing for people to come to grips with is that even the most powerful nations are impotent in the face of such unexpected strikes. Wars at least define the enemy. With terrorism, it's never clear who the villains are or who they'll hit.