I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
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The war against terrorism is terrorism.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
Terrorism has become a festering wound. It is an enemy of humanity.
Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.
Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.
Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.