Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

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.

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.

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.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

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.

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