This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.
We cannot allow anything that's called 'national defense' to justify any and all spending. We need to be very, very careful that we don't overspend and say, 'Oh, that's defense,' when perhaps it isn't.
I don't live under the illusion we don't need a military to protect this country.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it.
We can't possibly fight all the terrorists in all the countries where they exist because we don't have the money or manpower to do so.
We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.