We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can't do that any more than you can get into a barroom fight without getting hurt... Unless the American people are willing to send their sons out to fight an aggressor, there just isn't going to be any United States.
We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight.
The concern we have is that if somebody from our side gets captured they are going to get their throats slit.
Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.
Since the events of September 11, we've rightfully changed our military strategy so we're now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen.
I'm very disturbed about the uptick in shootings and violence at our military installations across the nation.
The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.
We will fight hostage taking like we fight terrorism.
We have to be as militant defending America as the enemies of America are in trying to destroy America.
We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.