Of course everybodys thinking evolves over time.

As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have, over a number of years, learned to be a little less direct.

The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.

Of course everybodys thinking evolves over time.

Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books

If it is presumed that the Kenyans will democratise in order to eat the peanuts of development assistance from the European Union... it would be a big mistake.

The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a farce, ... We shall in the coming days and weeks see what we can do to expose the pack of lies and innuendoes that characterise the garbage in this report.