I think to compare Germany to the Third Reich is utterly ludicrous.

I think the United States and its British attack dog are not taken seriously anywhere in the world and can play no role in helping a political solution.

There are different versions of Islam... it is meaningless to claim to speak in the name of a ‘real’ Islam.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

Germany is a capitalist state nurtured carefully and brought back to prosperity by the United States, and it is very loyal to the United States. I don't even think the Germans enjoy full sovereignty. There are some things which they cannot do if the United States doesn't wish them to do it.

Continuous wars - which we have now had since 2001 - starting with Afghanistan, continuing on to Iraq. And even since Iraq, it's been more or less continuous. The appalling war in Libya, which has wrecked that country and wrecked that part of the world, and which isn't over by any means. The indirect Western intervention in Syria, which has created new monsters. These are policies, which if carried out by any individual government, would be considered extremist. Now, they're being carried out collectively by the United States, backed by some of the countries of the European Union.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.