Speaking As A New Yorker, I Found

History Is Written By Those Who Win And Those Who Dominate.

These Actions Were Taken With The Support And Financing Of The United States. How Can You Say This Is Part Of U.s. Adherence To International Law And U.n. Resolutions? The Result Is A Kind Of Schizophrenic Picture Of The United States.

This [terrorists Attacks On 9/11] Was Part Of Nothing. It Was A Leap Into Another Realm - The Realm Of Crazy Abstractions And Mythological Generalities, Involving People Who Have Hijacked Islam For Their Own Purposes. It's Important Not To Fall Into That Trap And To Try To Respond With A Metaphysical Retaliation Of Some Sort.

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.

I Have Never Known What Is Arabic Or English, Or Which One Was Really Mine Beyond Any Doubt. What I Do Know, However, Is That The Two Have Always Been Together In My Life, One Resonating In The Other, Sometimes Ironically, Sometimes Nostalgically, Most Often Each Correcting, And Commenting On, The Other. Each Can Seem Like My Absolutely First Language, But Neither Is.