Eight years ago, hijacked passenger jets destroyed the World Trade Center. -- A.G. Sulzberger, New York Times. 9-11-2009
Eight years ago, we were visited by the furies of Arab lands. -- Fouad Ajami, WSJ 9-11-2009
[There is indeed] a correct reading of the wellsprings of Islamist radicalism. Those ...who had struck American soil on 9/11 . . . were Arabs. Their terrorism came out of the pathologies of Arab political life. Their financiers were Arabs, and so were those crowds in Cairo and Nablus and Amman that had winked at the terror and had seen those attacks as America getting its comeuppance on that terrible day.
Ajami is a professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and an adjunct fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution
