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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.

What Is Quite Worrisome Is The Absence Of Analysis And Reflection. Take The Word "terrorism." It Has Become Synonymous Now With Anti-americanism, Which, In Turn, Has Become Synonymous With Being Critical Of The United States, Which, In Turn, Has Become Synonymous With Being Unpatriotic. That's An Unacceptable Series Of Equations.

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.

[roots Of Terrorism] 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.