The following are editorial opinions from newspapers from around the world which may be of interest to Royal Gazette readers

Los Angeles Times –on why terrorism shouldn't change US values

Are shoe bombers and car bombers facts of American life now? Sadly, they probably are, just as school shootings, gang violence and the occasional rampage by a knife-wielding mental patient at Target are lamentable features of contemporary society.

Citizen vigilance and the incompetence of would-be bombers have spared American lives on a couple of occasions now, most recently in Times Square.

Nimble police work and improved coordination among law enforcement agencies have saved untold more. Those successes are a reminder of what works in combating violence, whether it is generated on the streets of Los Angeles or in the caves of Afghanistan.

They are the appropriate responses of a society in which civil liberties are a source of strength, not weakness, and in which effective law enforcement coexists with respect for privacy and personal freedom. ...

The arrest of a suspect in the Times Square attempt is a testament to excellent police work. Faisal Shahzad was captured at New York's Kennedy Airport after he had boarded a flight to Dubai.

Nonetheless, some commentators seized on the attempted car bombing as further proof of an Obama administration failure to advance in a global war on terrorism; Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y, and Sen. John McCain, R-Az., argued against reading Shahzad his Miranda rights, even though he is a naturalised US citizen.

Critics should take a deep breath. Even terrorism does not justify this and other aggressive tactics that fall outside the law, such as torture and warrantless wiretapping. Fortunately, Shahzad was read his rights after being questioned for an undetermined period under a public safety exception.

A suicide bomb or car bomb is intended to take lives, of course, but its greater purpose is to instill an incapacitating fear in the survivors and a repressive overreaction on the part of society that somehow serves as warped justification for the original attack.

If that happens, a Nigerian on a Christmas Day flight to Detroit, or a Pakistani-American who allegedly bought the SUV that was left in Times Square can succeed even when his bombs fail.