Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.