Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.

Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

Each murder is one too many.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.