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Today, the world remembers the thousands who lost their lives in what is probably the most brutal terrorist attack ever to be committed on American soil. Two years have passed but the threat of terror continues to loom despite an apparently concerted effort to hunt down the perpetrators.

With the Presidential Elections within a year or so away, the Bush administration finds itself in a precarious situation. Local and international support has begun to wane; public perception, influenced by reports of failed intelligence and budget trouble.

The Bush administration abused public sympathy to gain support for its global witch hunt, but even after two years of US military presence in various countries, the criminals are still at large. The campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq have failed to affect significant changes in the region’s socio-political quagmire. Despite its seemingly noble ambitions, the Global War on Terror not only failed to provide long-term solutions but managed to botch up the quick fixes as well.

John Kerry was right to call the Bush government a say-one-thing-and-do-another administration. It will be remembered as the regime that desecrated the memories of the 9/11 victims by embarking on unjust military campaigns in their names, the government that claimed to commit itself to the establishment of peace in the Middle East but instead installed ad hoc colonies in the region, contributing to an atmosphere conducive to anti-American zealotry. It is the regime of hypocrites that criticized the preemptive strikes of other countries (such as the campaigns in Chechnya and Kosovo) only to justify — without sufficient proof, so it seems — its own preemptive attack on Baghdad.

With their fiscally unsound policies and hidden agendas, I will not be surprised if American voters kick Bush and his lackeys out of the White House in 2004. Hopefully, their successors will provide the victims of 9/11 with a more fitting legacy.

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