People would like to believe that America today is exactly the same as the America [of the Vietnam era]. But let's open our eyes: Milosevic, the Taliban, Saddam Hussein… The Americans are now overthrowing dictatorships… [Accused of being] too realist in the past, perhaps they are not sufficiently Kissingerian today … But Europe is certainly wrong to believe that a multipolar world can itself act as a global democracy."

"In the Sixties, leftists read Marx, Trotsky or Lenin. These days, everyone is encouraged to read Noam Chomsky. I thought that this thinker had been discredited, by his preface to [the work of the far right holocaust denier] Faurisson and his ardent denial of the Cambodian genocide. I was wrong. The most prestigious publishing houses compete for the political works of a man who considers as non-existent any crime or abomination for which the American-Zionist entity cannot be held responsible."