The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.

The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.

Even ivory towers need central heating.