We are now living in a borderless world, where the might of the Internet and e-mailing has given the world a balanced view of every aspect of life.

The world news that used to be monopolised by CNN has now been taken over by the dotcoms, allowing even a traditional Masai tribesman of Africa to tell his side of the story to a 50-year-old housewife in Papua New Guinea.

Thus, with the advent of digital age, the world is beginning to get a second opinion of information, shifting away from information traditionally provided and controlled by US interests. The result is that every piece of the chess set that the US moves on the chessboard of foreign policy, will be studied and interpreted individually and in totality.

To some extent it would be interpreted in disgust. The presence of alternative dotcom information rendered the standard 'US paracetamol of democracy' obsolete and invalid as it exposed the numbing effect to the rest of the world which in the past had allowed the US interest to step on other nations.

It's difficult not to rejoice or feel satisfied about the WTC attack when an image of a four-month-old baby girl of a Palestinian, with a fist-size bullet hole on the back of her chest, killed by an Israeli soldier, being flashed in your e- mail. The US government condemns terrorism on one hand but approves of Israel's barbaric transgressions against humanity on the other.

Days before the WTC attack, the US government refused to ratify the UN convention on terrorism; now the government is seeking a unified effort of the world to hunt terrorists. This clearly shows the selfish attitude of an arrogant superpower which only woke up after the attacks.

The blame-the-other campaign by the US media created a political backlash internationally and further endangered the US citizens internally. A foreign government may feel obliged to support the US witchhunt, but its people are not obliged to do the same.

The US government can find all the justifications to retaliate, but does it solve the problem? An American friend once told me that the society's attitude towards you is a mirror image of yourself. So United States of America, it's about time you re-examine your foreign policy.