Religious fundamentalism guided the trigger finger.
"Terrorism" was the tool.

It was an "Attack on America" in the eyes of the American patriot
but it was also
an attack on humanity in eyes not blinded by ethnocentrism.

Every country has its blinded patriots
who can't see terrors they would inflict on people of other countries.

Every country has its blinded fundamentalists
who can't tolerate religious beliefs that differ from their own.

The blind patriot defines
"good" as what we do,
"evil" as what they do.

"Terrorism" is inhumane action taken with simpleminded disregard
of the human rights of "others."

The Holocaust, Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Kuwait Death March, Oklahoma City, and now The World Trade Center...
all were attacks on humanity, 
in which someone selected justifications, 
and rejected human values,
to deny that truth.

The infant can't see beyond it's immediate self.
The child can't see beyond it's immediate family.
Some adults never grow to see beyond their immediate culture.

Humanity encompasses all races, cultures, religions, beliefs...
 

Ethnocentrism has power to destroy humanity.
A powerful nation must have decision makers who see beyond ethnocentric blindness.