Good Quote

"Over the years, these extremists have used a litany of excuses for violence: the Israeli presence on the West Bank, the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia, the defeat of the Taliban, or the Crusades of a thousand years ago. In fact, we’re not facing a set of grievances that can be soothed and addressed. We’re facing a radical ideology with inalterable objectives: to enslave whole nations and intimidate the world. No act of ours invited the rage of killers — and no concession, bribe, or act of appeasement would change or limit their plans for murder. On the contrary, they target nations whose behavior they believe they can change through violence. Against such an enemy, there is only one effective response."

GW

It reads well, I wonder if he said it well.

I also read on a hawkish blog that "I get tired of liberals acting like hawks are war-mongers. The reason we're hawks is because we think it is the best way to avoid war." It was in response to the surprise expressed by some media folks that Nixon apparently fretted over all out nuclear war. No silly, didn't Nixon want all out nuclear war? I thought that was his foreign policy.