Mayer has been critical of the policies of the United States government . In 2001 , after the September 11 attacks , he wrote an essay stating that " since 1947 America has been the chief and pioneering perpetrator of ' preemptive ' state terror , exclusively in the Third World and therefore widely dissembled . " When interviewed for a 2003 documentary , he described the Roman Empire as a " tea party " in comparison to its American counterpart
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Arno J. Mayer