Obama spiega le motivazioni di Al Qaeda e la stupidaggine di chi vuole trovare una causa nei comportamenti dell’America e dell’Occidente:
"Al Qaeda is still bent on carrying out terrorist activity. It is– al Qaeda is still bent on carrying out terrorist activity. It is, you know, don’t fool yourselves because some people say, well, you know, if we changed our policies with respect to Israeli/Palestinian conflict or if we were more respectful towards the Muslim world, suddenly, these organizations would stop threatening us.
That’s just not the case. It is true that we have to change our behavior in showing the Muslim world greater respect and changing our language and changing our tone. It is true that we have to work very hard for Israeli/Palestinian peace.
But what is also true is that these organizations are willing to kill innocent people because of a twisted distorted ideology and we, as democracies and as people who value human life, can’t allow those organizations to operate".