I Am For Peace. And I Am

We Are At A Point In Our Work When We Can No Longer Ignore Empires And The Imperial Context In Our Studies. (p. 5)

The Arab Rulers Are Basically Unpopular. They Are Supported By The United States Against The Wishes Of Their People. In All Of This Rather Heady Mixture Of Violence And Policies That Are Remarkably Unpopular Right Down To The Last Iota, It's Not Hard For Demagogues, Especially People Who Claim To Speak In The Name Of Religion, In This Case Islam, To Raise A Crusade Against The United States And Say That We Must Somehow Bring America Down.

Beginning Is Not Only A Kind Of Action. It Is Also A Frame Of Mind, A Kind Of Work, An Attitude, A Consciousness.

In Short, Israel Is The Measure Of Our Failings And Our Incompetence. We Have Waited For A Great Leader For Years, But None Came; We Have Waited For A Mighty Military Victory, But We Were Defeated Roundly; We Have Waited For Outside Powers (the United States Or, In Its Time, The Soviet Union), But None Came To Our Aid. The One Thing We Have Not Tried In All Seriousness Has Been To Rely On Ourselves: Until We Do That With A Full Commitment To Success There Is No Chance That We Can Advance Towards Self-determination And Freedom From Aggression.

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.