UN General Assembly
2002

walk our streets, to fly our skies, to breathe the air or to drink the water. We cannot agree to this. We cannot allow dark forces — which, as we are aware, could destroy the lives of innocent people on a whim — to possess weapons of mass destruction. We shall not turn our lives into a series of sleepless nights and nightmarish days. We do not have the right to ignore the danger. We do not have the option to postpone it; it is imminent. We have to win as soon as possible. Terror is destined to lose. It will be defeated because it carries no hope. It respects neither human beings nor the values of humanity. Science and technology made the economy global, and science and technology globalized terror as well. Now strategy also is globalized, because ballistic ranges have replaced geographic distances, because non-conventional warheads have replaced measurable explosives, because terrorism transcends frontiers and fronts. Terrorists do not respect the rule of law. They do not answer to independent judges or relate to