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

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

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.

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

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

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