American - Public | September 16, 1941 -
Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.
Richard Perle
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The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.
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The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.
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To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.
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We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.
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We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.
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George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.
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If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
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Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.
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The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.
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There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.
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We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.
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