Taking a Stand

The New York Times had a headline on September 23, 2001, that read “Forget the past: It’s a war unlike any other.” - Howard Zinn From: Terrorism and War, Chapter 3, “A Peaceful Nation?”

"Every nation now has a decision to make. Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists." - President George W. Bush

``No, we are not with you, and we are not terrorists." - Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme religious leader on his country's refusal to support the U.S., from Time, October 8, 2001

``We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization, a system that has guaranteed well- being, respect for human rights and, in contrast with Islamic countries, respect for religious and political rights..." - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, on his hopes that the West will `conquer' Islamic civilization.

“Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most urgent needs.” - Maximilien Robespierre

“War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.” - Howard Zinn