One Never Really Knows Who One's Enemy

After September 11, The European Governments Have Completely Failed. They Are Incapable Of Seeing Beyond Their Own National Scope Of Interests.

I Cannot Imagine A Context That Would Some Day, In Some Manner, Make The Monstrous Crime Of September 11 An Understandable Or Comprehensible Political Act

Osama Bin Laden, The Person, More Likely Serves The Function Of A Stand-in. Compare The New Terrorists With Partisans Or Conventional Terrorists In Israel. These People Often Fight In A Decentralized Manner In Small, Autonomous Units, Too.

If The September 11 Terror Attack Is Supposed To Constitute A Caesura In World History, It Must Be Able To Stand Comparison To Other Events Of World Historical Impact.

Subjects Who Reciprocally Recognize Each Other As Such, Must Consider Each Other As Identical, Insofar As They Both Take Up The Position Of Subject; They Must At All Times Subsume Themselves And The Other Under The Same Category. At The Same Time, The Relation Of Reciprocity Of Recognition Demands The Non-identity Of One And The Other, Both Must Also Maintain Their Absolute Difference, For To Be A Subject Implies The Claim Of Individuation.