The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

I'm not saying that we are capable of that horror, but the knowledge of it is probably something that is very deeply part of all of us.