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[roots Of Terrorism] Come Out Of A Long Dialectic Of U.s. Involvement In The Affairs Of The Islamic World, The Oil-producing World, The Arab World, The Middle East - Those Areas That Are Considered To Be Essential To U.s. Interests And Security.

And In This Relentlessly Unfolding Series Of Interactions, The U.s. Has Played A Very Distinctive Role, Which Most Americans Have Been Either Shielded From Or Simply Unaware Of.

Ironically, Many Of People, Including Osama Bin Laden And The Mujahedeen, Were, In Fact, Nourished By The United States In The Early Eighties In Its Efforts To Drive The Soviets Out Of Afghanistan.

[9/11] Was Bloody-minded Destruction For No Other Reason Than To Do It.

I Take Criticism So Seriously As To Believe That, Even In The Midst Of A Battle In Which One Is Unmistakably On One Side Against Another, There Should Be Criticism, Because There Must Be Critical Consciousness If There Are To Be Issues, Problems, Values, Even Lives To Be Fought For... Criticism Must Think Of Itself As Life-enhancing And Constitutively Opposed To Every Form Of Tyranny, Domination, And Abuse; Its Social Goals Are Noncoercive Knowledge Produced In The Interests Of Human Freedom.