So, Osama bin Laden and 98 per cent of the al-Qaida leadership are still alive and planning fresh attacks, the Bush administration admits the US is in greater danger than before the bombing of Afghanistan began and Islamist warlords are re-asserting their power within the Afghani government and look set to create a regime scarcely different from that of the Taliban.

This has all been "achieved" at the cost of thousands of Afghani civilian deaths.

One would hope those politicians and media pundits who supported the bombing would admit they had been wrong and would start looking for positive solutions to the regions problems.

Unfortunately, what will happen may well be the reverse.

The US's war against terrorism is making the world a far more dangerous place and we will all suffer the consequences unless we start to register our dissent and make our politicians aware they do not act in our name.

-Jez Macdonald, Carlyle Street, Brighton