Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.

I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.