"...the creeping Americanization of Islam is doomed to fail, just as Anglicization did more than a century ago."

"The American debates, of course, are not debates at all. They are more a set of joint press conferences, a staged opportunity for both candidates to repeat memorized lines in a cozy environment, protected by elaborate rules and an always-undemanding moderator."

"In Sharon’s estimate, the occasion of the first American presidential debate presented a perfect opportunity to commence another massacre of Palestinians. The Israelis know all too well that both Democrats and Republicans are accustomed to financing their campaigns with innocent Palestinian blood."

"If Bush had not pursued disastrous policies of slaughtering countless innocents in Iraq and Afghanistan, Al Qaeda would be reeling under the loss of personnel by security services from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and elsewhere."

"This is not just a question of bad form on the part of Allawi. It might be illegal for American intelligence operatives to involve themselves in domestic campaigns."

"The neo-cons supplied only the ideological embellishment and the moral justification. One could almost say that this is the traditional job assigned to the Jews."

"The National Museum of the American Indians has just opened in Washington, D.C. It is an impressive, strikingly visional edifice located on the Mall. It celebrates, via exhibits and multimedia presentation, 10,000 years of cultural achievements of the American Indians, stretching from Chile to Alaska. The genocides of the past are prominently told here, but the focus is on the realities now facing the tribes and their hopes for the future."

"The War President is a Warmonger with a background in personal evasion of military service. His Vice-President deferred his own military service during wartime in his youth, and should have deferred any war-making during his adulthood in high government positions."