Terror Talk.
I just started reading Graham Allison's book, Nuclear Terrorism, and came across this chilling statement from Suleiman Abu Gheith, Osama bin Laden's spokesman, issued nine months after 9/11:
What happened to America is something natural, an expected event for a country that uses terror, arrogant policy and suppression against the nations and peoples, and imposes a single method, thought, and way of life, as if the people of the entire world are clerks in its government offices...
I didn't see that metaphor coming, and it creeps me out.
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