China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don’t see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.

In a world where the threat is asymmetrical, where the weak defy the strong, the power of conviction, the capacity to convince, the ability to sway opinion count as much as the number of military divisions.

Accusations are useless.

In the last few days, I have been the victim of a campaign of slander and shameful lies, a campaign which has deeply shocked and hurt me. Enough is enough.

I grew up in the United States.

Using the right of veto would be shooting the Americans in the back.

The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.