Rather than join the anti-Satanist outrage and try to convince Christians that Muslims deserve to be included as "children of Abraham" or whatever, I would suggest that Muslims take a radical stand on behalf of the religious freedoms that we claim for ourselves.
LAWRENCE WILKERSON, FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF TO COLIN POWELL: I want to say that if the polls show 62percentt of Americans want to use ground forces against ISIS in Syria or Iraq or whatever, then I suggest we have a draft and we draft those 62percenttoto lead the way.
No, they'll let you do whatever you want, I suggest.
However, whatever your size and shape, I suggest that the best length for a pair of shorts has the hem two or three inches above the top of the kneecap.
Whatever it suggests, a means should be found to stage trials that are indisputably fair, before a panel of independent judges, administering international law.
So I suggest you forget whatever problems that can't be changed, and say: "who the heck cares?" and then move on.
For a book about the all-too-human "passions of war", my 1997 work Blood Rites ended on a strangely inhuman note: I suggested that, whatever distinctly human qualities war calls upon – honour, courage, solidarity, cruelty, and so forth – it might be useful to stop thinking of war in exclusively human terms.
Hamilton bristled when I suggested that, whatever the value of his books, his sales pitch might be a tad misleading.
"I'd never had editors before and whatever they suggested I tended to go along with until the heart had dropped out of the story.
I'm at the director's disposal, so whatever he suggests, I should be ready to come up with".
