Accepting Quote by Naji Sabri

In the years immediately following 9/11, our focus was on the foreign terrorist who sought to harm us within our borders and threaten our…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false…

— Jimmy Carter

“In September 2002 the Bush administration announced its National Security Strategy, which declared the right to resort to force to eliminate any perceived challenge…

— Noam Chomsky

Less about politics, 'The Path to 9/11' focused on the emergence of radical Islamic terror as a clear and present American threat.

— Andrew Breitbart

The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

— Amy Waldman

The media is uncritical, and their so-called the concept of objectivity translates into keeping everything within the Beltway. However, Iraq was quite different. Here,…

— Noam Chomsky

I recommended to the president [George Bush] that our focus had to be on al-Qaida, the Taliban and Afghanistan. Those were the ones who…

— Colin Powell

The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides.

— Bill Dedman

There is ample evidence that the horrific events of Sept. 11 have been carefully manipulated to switch public focus from Osama Bin Laden and…

— Robert Byrd

After the invasion of Afghanistan, when the focus suddenly turned toward Iraq, I suddenly thought, 'What on earth had Iraq got to do with…

— Katharine Gun

The Bush administration's approach to the war on terror collided badly with another of its doctrines, spreading democracy in the Middle East as a…

— Peter Bergen

9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are kind of filtered through that lens.

— Peter Bergen