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As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.

As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?

The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.

I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people.

I think everybody who commits a violent killing is in some way crazy. But that doesn't mean we can let them off the hook for that.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.

So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.

More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.