Marginalia

November, 2007

FROM A TRANS­LATION of a speech by Osama bin Laden in The Al Qaeda Reader,this passage concerns the way President George W. Bush's use of us-vs.-them language in defining the struggle against terrorists validates Bin Laden's own philosophy: "Bush divided the world into two: 'either with us or with terrorism.' The odd thing about this Is that he has taken the words right out of our mouths."FROM AN ANSWER by William Reid of the band the Jesus and Mary Chain to a ques­tion in Uncut magazi...