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There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.
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Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.
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We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.
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Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
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Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.
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Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.
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Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.
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George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.
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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.
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If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
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We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.
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The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.
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Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
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The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.
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