Thesis. Antithesis. Synthesis.

They have taken 3,000 American lives on one single morning, they've attacked country after country after country throughout the world with a very determined idoelogy, they're trying to overturn governments. They took control of Afghanistan, they're trying to take control of Iraq, they're trying to take control of Lebanon and they're doing it for a very specific reason --- they have territorial ambition, they want the resources, they want the nuclear weapons, they want to destroy the west.

-Dan Bartlett, Presidential Spokesman-


They rip us of our wealth and of our resources and of our oil. Our religion is under attack. They kill and murder our brothers. They compromise our honor and our dignity and dare we utter a single word of protest against the injustice, we are called terrorists. This is compounded injustice. And the United Nations insistence to convict the victims and support the aggressors constitutes a serious precedence which shows the extent of injustice that has been allowed to take root in this land.

-Osama bin Laden-


And what is the connection between us and them, how many bundled links do we find in this neural labyrinth? It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion.

-Don Delillo, Underworld