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You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

For heaven's sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see. You don't stand around arguing about who's responsible, or who's going to pay.

We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/11 - the entire concept of a war on technique, that is, terrorism. Defining the enemy when fighting a concept was impossible.