You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

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.

There's been essentially the same analysis over and over again and very little allowance made for different views and interpretations and reflections.

They [root causes of terror] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab world, the Middle East - those areas that are considered to be essential to U.S. interests and security.

Speaking as a New Yorker, I found [September 11] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it.

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.

But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation is all we have.