Since the outrages in America on September 11, the exhibition has been packed, mostly with young people. Many accused the media and politicians of misrepresenting public opinion and of obscuring the reasons behind the fanaticism of the attackers. For them, the most telling pictures are of "unworthy victims". Let me explain. The 6,000 people who died in America on September 11 are worthy victims: that is, they are worthy of our honour and a relentless pursuit of justice, which is right. In contrast, the 6,000 people who die every month in Iraq, the victims of a medieval siege devised and imposed by Washington and Whitehall, are, like the little sisters bombed to death in their sleep in Basra, unworthy victims - unworthy of even acknowledgement in the "civilised" west.

Ten years ago, when 200,000 Iraqis died during and immediately after the slaughter known as the Gulf war, the scale of this massacre was never allowed to enter public consciousness in the west. Many were buried alive at night by armoured American snowploughs and murdered while retreating. Colin Powell, then US military chief, who 22 years earlier was assigned to cover up the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and is currently being elevated to hero status in the western media, said: "It's really not numbers I'm terribly interested in."

An American letter writer to the Guardian last week, in admonishing the writer Arundhati Roy for producing a "laundry list" of American terror around the world, revealed how the blinkered think. The lives of millions of people extinguished as a consequence of American policies, be they Iraqis or Palestinians, Timorese or Congolese, belong not in our living memory, but on a "list". Apply that dismissive abstraction to the Holocaust, and imagine the profanity.

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On the day of the twin towers attack, an arms fair, selling weapons of terror to assorted tyrants and human rights abusers, opened in London's Docklands with the backing of the Blair government. Now Bush and Blair have created what the UN calls "the world's worst humanitarian crisis", with up to 7m people facing starvation. The initial American reaction was to demand that Pakistan stop supplying food to the starving who, of course, fail to qualify as worthy victims.

The bombing intelligentsia (the New Humanitarians, as Edward Herman calls them) are doing their bit, blaming September 11 on "an evil hatred of modernity" and something called "apocalyptic nihilism". There are no reasons why; the Barbican pictures are fake. Aside from a few "errors", Anglo-American actions are redeemed, and those who produce the "laundry list" of a blood-soaked historical record are "anti American", which apparently is similar to the "anti-semitism" of those who dare to point out the atrocious activities of the Israeli state.

Phyllis and Orlando Rodriguez lost their son Greg in the World Trade Centre. They said this: "We read enough of the news to sense that our government is heading in the direction of violent revenge, with the prospect of sons, daughters, parents, friends in distant lands dying, suffering, and nursing further grievances against us. It is not the way to go... not in our son's name."