Note That There Was No Claim For

To Say That We're Going To End Countries Or Eradicate Terrorism, And That It's A Long War Over Many Years, With Many Different Instruments, Suggests A Much More Complex And Drawn-out Conflict For Which, I Think, Most Americans Aren't Prepared.

Much As I Have No Wish To Hurt Anyone's Feelings, My First Obligation Has Not Been To Be Nice But To Be True To My Perhaps Peculiar Memories, Experiences And Feelings.

This [9/11 Event] Was Bloody-minded Destruction For No Other Reason Than To Do It. Note That There Was No Claim For These Attacks. There Were No Demands. There Were No Statements. It Was A Silent Piece Of Terror. This Was Part Of Nothing.

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.

Most Arabs And Muslims Feel That The United States Hasn't Really Been Paying Much Attention To Their Desires. They Think It Has Been Pursuing Its Policies For Its Own Sake And Not According To Many Of The Principles That It Claims Are Its Own - Democracy, Self-determination, Freedom Of Speech, Freedom Of Assembly, International Law.