There is also this great sense of triumphalism, that just as we defeated the Soviet Union, we can do this. And out of this sense of desperation and pathological religion, there develops an all-encompassing drive to harm and hurt, without regard for the innocent and the uninvolved, which was the case in New York.
Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said (ed. Pluto Press, 2003) - ISBN: 9780745320175