    80

    England, 1987.  This extraordinary documentary, one of the few to probe the hostile

    world of Islamic fundamentalism, was the result of an eighteen-month investigation

    in Beirut, Cairo and Iran.

    81.  Abdul Aziz Said, "Islamic Fundamentalism and the West," Mediterranean

    Quarterly, Fall 1992, pp. 21-36.

    82.  John L. Esposito, The Islamic Threat: myth or reality, pp. 173, 181.

    83.  Edward W. Said, "The Phony Islamic Threat," The New York Times Magazine,

    November 21, 1993, p. 62.

    84.  John L. Esposito, The Islamic Threat: myth or reality, p. 171.

    85. Phebe Marr, "The Islamic Revival: Security Issues," Mediterranean Quarterly,

    Fall 1992, pp. 37, 43-44.

    86.  Abbas Hamdani, "Islamic Fundamentalism," Mediterranean Quarterly, Fall

    1993, pp. 38, 44.

    87.  Ayatollah Khomeini, Sayings of the Ayatollah Khomeini: Political, Philosophical,

    Social, and Religious, pp. 3-7, 27-28, 31.

    88.  As long ago as 1983, the Chinese had sold Moslem Pakistan the technology

    for building atomic bombs the size of soccer balls.  Pakistan, in turn, had built

    facilities for mass-producing these  weapons and was fully equipped with the

    ballistic missiles to deliver them. (John Dikkenburg, "'Supermarket' in the Pacific,"

    Asia Magazine, Hong Kong, reprinted in World Press Review, September, 1992,

    pp. 14-16.)  By 1993, there were active nuclear weapons development programs in

    Iraq, Iran, Libya, and several other Islamic states.  According to Harvard

    University's Samuel P. Huntington, "a top Iranian official has declared that all

    Muslim states should acquire nuclear weapons...."  (Samuel P. Huntington, "The

    Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs, Summer, 1993, p. 46.)

    89.  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures On The Philosophy of World History,

    H.B. Nisbet, trans., Cambridge University Press, London, 1975, p. 166.

    90.  Quoted in Tom Buckley, Violent Neighbors: El Salvador, Central America and

    the United States, Times Books, New York, 1984, p. 39.

    91.  Though the United States fought Mexico in 1846, our "imperialist" involvements

    in Latin America wouldn't blossom until the end of the 19th century.  The prime

    symbol of American interests in South America was the United Fruit Company,

    which became famous for its meddling in "banana republic" politics.  As late as

    1890, United Fruit (then called the Boston Fruit Company) was still only a fledgling

    firm sailing a handful of trading schooners to Jamaica.  In 1899, J.P. Morgan finally

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