"They [the neo-cons] use very positive notions like supporting democracy to promote their views, but I am often suspicious of what their ultimate agenda is. The endgame is to redraw the map of the Middle East, but the question is: to whose benefit and what would it look like?"

"[J]ust as there is Orientalism, there is Occidentalism and if there is a tendency to demonise one side, there is demonisation on the other"