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.

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

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.

No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.

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

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

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.