This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.
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The war against terrorism is terrorism.
The fight against international terrorism isn't just a fight against a bunch of misguided extremists; it is a fight to defend the values that we hold dear.
The war against terrorism is one we must win.
The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.
The fight against terrorism is an international struggle of the free world against the forces of darkness.
If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of the very battle we seek to win?
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.
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.
True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we're fighting - actively fighting something else. But if you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.
We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.