After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

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

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

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.

Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.