George F Will in the aftermath of the terrorists' attack on America wrote in The Washington Post : "In thinking about terrorism, democracies are sometimes plagued by bad sociology and bad philosophy feeding upon each other. From the false idea that extreme action must have justification in the social environment, it is but a short stagger to the equally false idea that such acts can and should be eliminated by appeasement tarted up as reasonableness."

It is an urgent moral appeal to the common humanity to discard the natural but erroneous views expressed by many here at malaysiakini .

No, humanity cannot and must not justify such horrors inflicted against the Americans under whatever pretexts. It is a sign of one hollow moral bankruptcy to even suggest that the atrocity is a violent revulsion of the Islamic world against US' policies in the Middle East, sanction against Iraq etc. For maintaining such hollow ground would justify the Holocaust of the Second World War or the ethnic cleansing of the Balkan.

Thinking persons the world over must not be deluded by the tyranny of this causative analysis of the world affairs. The likes of Osama or Milosevic could marshal huge populists' support from their respective constituents because of the seduction of such simplistic cause and effect on world affairs.

MGG Pillai and his likes are ever too quick to jump into this moral quicksand. The memories of the dead and the families of the victims do not deserve such response.

No, not everyone who condemns the attacks would disagree that US needs to review her foreign policies. Even her strongest allies might not agree with the US' response in the aftermath of this attack. But no morally sound person should even attempt to suggest that these heinous acts of the terrorists and their proxies can be justified under whatever pretext, howsoever couched.