[9/11] Was Bloody-minded Destruction For No Other

The United States That Has Been Involved First In The Gulf War And Then In The Tremendously Damaging Sanctions Against Iraqi Civilians. The United States That Is The Supporter Of Israel Against The Palestinians.

... The Connection Between Imperial Politics And Culture Is Astonishingly Direct. American Attitudes To American "greatness", To Hierarchies Of Race, To The Perils Of "other" Revolutions (the American Revolution Being Considered Unique And Somehow Unrepeatable Anywhere Else In The World) Have Remained Constant, Have Dictated, Have Obscured, The Realities Of Empire, While Apologists For Overseas American Interests Have Insisted On American Innocence, Doing Good, Fighting For Freedom.

Osama Bin Laden, Who Is A Saudi, Feels Himself To Be A Patriot Because The U.s. Has Forces In Saudi Arabia, Which Is Sacred Because It Is The Land Of The Prophet Mohammed.

The Just Response To This Terrible Event [9/11] Should Be To Go Immediately To The World Community, The United Nations. The Rule Of International Law Should Be Marshaled, But It's Probably Too Late Because The United States Has Never Done That; It's Always Gone It Alone.

Look At Situations As Contingent, Not As Inevitable, Look At Them As The Result Of A Series Of Historical Choices Made By Men And Women, As Facts Of Society Made By Human Beings, And Not As Natural Or God-given, Therefore Unchangeable, Permanent, Irreversible.