the word from australia

"But go back three years. From the moment American airliners were transformed by suicidal fanatics into missiles of mass destruction, it was clear the world had changed. Now we know it has changed in ways most of us could not have imagined, and mostly for the worse. The nations of the West are more afraid, less united and, most tragically, less free. To that extent, in spite of George Bush's war against terrorism - indeed, in part, because of it - al-Qaeda has achieved its ends." - The Sydney Morning Herald