The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
America is worth fighting for ideologically.
If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.
Our enemy is hatred - the hatred inherent in fundamentalism.
One of the worst things we could do is start to act now as though the attack of 9/11 is a thing of the past and will never be repeated. That's just not true.
Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
We have real enemies, dedicated to dominating and eventually destroying us, and they are not going to be talked out of their hatred.
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
We're getting the sort of 'compromise' American politics specializes in: the one where things are intentionally made worse for most people in the hopes that if things are made bad enough, the other side will cave.
I want us to be able to fight ideologically, mentally, spiritually, economically, so that we don't have to do it physically.
The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.