Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.
About Adam Michnik
Adam Michnikis a Polish historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, as well as co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza.
Reared in a family of committed communists, Michnik became an opponent of Poland’s communist regime at the time of the party’s anti-Jewish purges.
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Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
Polish essayist and publicist (born 1946)
Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.
Polish essayist and publicist (born 1946)
I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
Polish essayist and publicist (born 1946)
I think it’s always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it’s very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
Polish essayist and publicist (born 1946)
France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
Polish essayist and publicist (born 1946)
If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
Polish essayist and publicist (born 1946)