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During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.

We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!

I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.

There was so much fear after 9/11, and that fear caused people to make the wrong decisions.

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.