But since Tuesday, anybody who thinks about anything other than the American flag or the USA is crazy. America's Unlimited War by Rahul Mahajan and Robert Jensen For more than a week everyone has been saying that our world changed on Sept. 11. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. That's a question for those who don't understand the new war. They will hand over the terrorists or they will share in their fate.
Collective punishment is part of the new world order.
Bush has said repeatedly this isn't about a clash of religions. God has signed on with us, and so difficult questions need not be asked. The Pentagon has retracted that name, with its overtones of Christian fundamentalism, in deference to the sentiments of Muslims. But it cannot retract the uneasy feeling the phrase leaves us with, for the Pentagon planners are not speaking of justice spread infinitely throughout the world. The war of the 21st century begins now.