Monitor: All the News of the World Reaction to the bombing raids in Sudan and Afghanistan
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Your support makes all the difference.IT IS clear from the Middle East's reaction that, if Washington is going to pursue its "war of the future" against Islamic extremism, it will have to come up with convincing evidence that Sudan's pharmaceutical factory was really making chemical weapons.
The Observer
BIN LADEN'S war against the West is not rational, and cannot be combated by anything except force. The community of civilised nations cannot simply sit back and let him commit mass murder. To do nothing about evil is tacitly to accept it. It involves a kind of complicity in it. The Prime Minister is right to lend his wholehearted support to Mr Clinton's stand against Bin Laden's terrorist barbarities. We hope Mr Blair will take a similarly tough stance against the terrorism being committed within our own country - but his recent form gives us no particular encouragement.
The Sunday Telegraph
THIS WEEKEND American security chiefs will have other priorities on their minds as they brace themselves for retaliatory attacks. But political leaders, especially Bill Clinton, need a bolder vision. Terrorism will only be defeated when we win hearts and minds in the Islamic world, forge real alliances with ordinary people as well as their leaders, defuse the resentments they feel, use our political and economic strengths as well as our military might.
Otherwise the war of the future could easily become a war without end.
The Mail on Sunday
PRESIDENT CLINTON wasted no time in blasting to bits the people he considered responsible for bombing the American embassies in East Africa.
How different was his friendly attitude to the terrorists who have been doing the same sort of thing over here for a quarter of a century.
News of the World
BUILDING ON Afghanistan and Sudan, we should adopt a policy of retaliating against states supporting terrorism whenever terrorists strike. Every time. And those strikes should do real damage to military facilities. To the regimes involved they are what matter most.
The Sunday Times
(Richard Perle)
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