You Cannot Continue To Victimize Someone Else

Just As None Of Us Is Outside Or Beyond Geography, None Of Us Is Completely Free From The Struggle Over Geography. That Struggle Is Complex And Interesting Because It Is Not Only About Soldiers And Cannons But Also About Ideas, About Forms, About Images And Imaginings.

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.

It Is Quite Common To Hear High Officials In Washington And Elsewhere Speak Of Changing The Map Of The Middle East, As If Ancient Societies And Myriad Peoples Can Be Shaken Up Like So Many Peanuts In A Jar.

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.

It [9/11] Transcended The Political And Moved Into The Metaphysical. There Was A Kind Of Cosmic, Demonic Quality Of Mind At Work Here, Which Refused To Have Any Interest In Dialogue And Political Organization And Persuasion. This Was Bloody-minded Destruction For No Other Reason Than To Do It.