Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
From Richard Perle
No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.
Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.
The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.
The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.
To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.
We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.
George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.
If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
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