“Consider this exchange on CNN, as reported by Michael Massing in The New York Review of Books: ‘On October 15 [2004] former General George Joulwan discussed with Wolf Blitzer the need for Americans to do a better job of explaining to Muslims how much they’d done for them over the years. Blitzer agreed: ‘I don’t think a lot of Muslims understand that over the past fifteen years, every time the U.S. has gone to war, whether in Kuwait, or Somalia, or Kosovo, or Bosnia, or Afghanistan or Iraq, it’s to help Muslims.’ Joulwan: ‘We’ve saved tens of thousands of them. We need to understand that, and so do our Muslim friends.’ ”
– Amy Goodman with David Goodman, The Exception to the Rulers, Page xviii