Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

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.