The World Trade Center, is not only an environmental disaster, but an ethical failure as well. However, this balance was again disturbed when some 'imbalanced' people crashed a couple of planes with passengers into them.

However what have we learnt from all this? Moreover, what has the US government learnt from all this? Nothing some may say. The reason: the US wants to declare war on a country which is already in deep famine.

Yet, the Bush administration (according to Reuters) have pledged 100,000 tonnes of food in addition to the 65,000 tonnes currently being sent to poverty-stricken Afghans, and it is still planning to send it despite its threat of war.

Then one may look at the US agriculture industry and one sees that Monsanto, one of US' biggest agriculture company gives out 'free' genetically modified wheat or corn for farmers to use to plant their crops. However, the seed have one important feature, it cannot reproduce. In other words, once the farmer starts using them, they are forever dependent on Monsanto to supply them with more seeds for the following year's crops.

However, we see now that the US government is going around trying to garner support for its military campaign against Afghanistan in hopes of achieving an international coalition against terrorism, particularly against Afghanistan.

Now, we have the issue of Israel, who has instituted a wave of state terrorism unprecedented in human history and stands in defiance of 69 UN Security Council resolutions. The only reason for its survival is the protection it gets from the American government.

Why has not the US or the international community acted against Israel? We also have the US-led sanctions in Iraq, which has caused more then half a million deaths. Why the international community is not making a lot of ruckus about this?

Truly, we need a sense of balance when we act, and we should all know that justice that is partial and 'selective' is not really justice, but hypocrisy. If it is justice we want, then justice should be done across the board, regardless of rich or poor, powerful or weak. In fact, in all fairness, it is the poor and powerless who are in need of justice most of all.

Truly, the US is a 'mighty' country, a wrong has been done to it, and we should support its right to justice. Nevertheless, we should all make our support conditional, that the US acts in justice universally, and puts right her previous injustices.

This is the only way where balance can be restored and true justice will, God willing, prevail, not by blind retribution.

Fire is not fought with fire, but fire is fought with water.