Appeals To The Past Are

If You Live In The [middle East] Area, You See [u.s Actions] As Part Of A Continuing Drive For Dominance, And With It A Kind Of Obduracy, A Stubborn Opposition To The Wishes And Desires And Aspirations Of The People There.

There Is Also This Great Sense Of Triumphalism, That Just As We Defeated The Soviet Union, We Can Do This. And Out Of This Sense Of Desperation And Pathological Religion, There Develops An All-encompassing Drive To Harm And Hurt, Without Regard For The Innocent And The Uninvolved, Which Was The Case In New York.

In 1985, A Group Of Mujahedeen Came To Washington And Was Greeted By President Reagan, Who Called Them "freedom Fighters." These People, By The Way, Don't Represent Islam In Any Formal Sense. They're Not Imams Or Sheiks. They Are Self-appointed Warriors For Islam.

Orientalism Can Be Discussed And Analyzed As The Corporate Institution For Dealing With The Orient—dealing With It By Making Statements About It, Authorizing Views Of It, Describing It, By Teaching It, Settling It, Ruling Over It: In Short, Orientalism As A Western Style For Dominating, Restructuring, And Having Authority Over The Orient.

What We Must Eliminate Are Systems Of Representation That Carry With Them The Authority Which Has Become Repressive Because It Doesn't Permit Or Make Room For Interventions On The Part Of Those Represented.