"Many had hoped the capture of Saddam Hussein would put an end to the insurgency that has been carrying out deadly attacks against US troops and Iraqi targets. But any such wishfulness was swiftly crushed when suicide bombers killed eight Iraqi policemen and injured at least 30 civilians in two suicide bomb attacks in Baghdad (16th December). It may well be a clear indication that the resistance to US occupation will continue despite the capture of the former Iraqi leader."

"Since India has persistently been repudiating such a milieu, wherein overtures for talks could be translated into a reality—every peace-loving nation—the world-over—would phrase the new impel as a fragrant breakthrough as well as a dazzling icon of great expectations."

"The governments of Saudi Arabia and Egypt are also corrupt, tyrannies that likely have unconventional weapons programs, commit gross human rights abuses against their people and have therefore spawned radical Islamic terrorists."

"Israelis destroy not mere stone and concrete that keeps out the elements; they destroy lifelong accomplishments, hopes, fears - the future together with the past: irreplaceable memories of one's life, birth, death, laughter, and tears."

"Canadians have been spared the ignominy of watching their armed forces take part in a war crime for the sake of oil and Greater Israel. This will doubtless be [Prime Minister Jean] Chrétien’s chief political legacy to the nation. What will become of it under his successor, former finance minister Paul Martin, is a matter of grave concern."

"The Beijing Olympics are around the corner and the PRC is proclaiming itself the "New China". Markets are opening up, US/Sino relations have never been better but the Chinese have one small problem. The "Uygur Question?" What to do with a 7.5 million strong Turkic Muslim minority resident in their strategic north west? Perhaps the time is right for a resolution of this 2,000 year old question."

"Have you ever noticed how many of those odd people, the American neo-cons, use the rhetoric of nineteenth century European radicals? You'd be hard put to count all the references to "revolutionary," "radical," and "manifesto" in the American Right's industrial-scale output of pamphlets and tracts."

"Hatred of Israel makes up, indeed, the principal fuel for the growth of Hamas, but there is real concern that no one will be left to pluck the fruits of radical Islam. Time is working against both societies."