But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.

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

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

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

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.

Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will.

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.