Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it in effect deliberately by being indifferent to the scale of collateral damage, you're killing hostages in the hope of intimidating those that you want to intimidate. And more likely than not you will not intimidate them. You'll simply outrage them and make them into permanent enemies with the number of such enemies increasing.

I never exploited my father’s role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps...

We cannot leap into world government through one quick step... The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units.

But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.

Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.