For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.
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The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.
September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.
The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.
The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.
Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.
The war against terrorism is terrorism.