The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.