I think its important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

President Murabak has been a U.S. ally for decades. He was a guarantor of some degree of peace in the Middle East and has kept a good relationship with the Western world.

Evil must be confronted in its womb, and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force.

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.

In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are not, however, static quotas that we either fulfill or do not.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Planetary democracy does not yet exist but our global civilization is already preparing a place for it. It is the very Earth we inhabit linked with Heaven above us. Only in this setting can the mutuality and the commonality of the human race be newly created with reverence and gratitude for that which transcends each of us and all of us together.