Nothing has made this fundamental asymmetry of relations between Amer-icans and Others clearer than the September 11, 2001, events and American reac-tions to them. Before September 11, most Americans were ignorant of the factthat many people outside of the United States were furious and frustrated atthem for real or imagined abuses and deprivations that they blamed on America’seconomic and military policies. And among the few Americans who did knowabout it, most did not care because there was nothing the Others could do abouttheir anger.And then, suddenly, a handful of the previously invisible Others did “getback” at Americans in a very big way. They gained the full attention of Americansbecause they were able to inflict a tremendous killing force and destruction onmajor American icons of capitalism and militarism