Ahmadinejad Does New York

In an interview with the BBC's Newsnight in 2006, Philip Roth was asked about 9/11 and the Bush administration. This was his answer: "This I think criminal administration has hijacked the event to bankrupt the country financially, to go to war needlessly. What could be more criminal than that? To destroy every social program they possibly could that gave aid and comfort to people in need. To make lying, which is only half of politics, 90 percent of politics, to alienate America from most of the world, to utterly destroy whatever moral prestige America still had.