Now, the reason I begin by saying "" no 9 / 11, no war "" is that we have to acknowledge that Islam, as interpreted by a very, very small, extremely radical group of people, was a precipitating cause of the 9 / 11 attacks — the precipitating cause of the 9 / 11 attacks — and as a consequence, at one degree of remove, the precipitating cause of the coming war that we're about to be engaged in.