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" Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest. "
Longer
American
Europe
" 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. "
Question
People
American
" Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. "
Own
Over
Control
" Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. "
Must
Military
Police
" 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. "
World
Government
Human Rights
" 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. "
Intelligence
Time
Go
" 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. "
Great
Children
Together
" In any event, the problem in Iran is much bigger than weapons. The problem is the terrorist regime that seeks the weapons. The regime must go. "
Event
Bigger
Much
" In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty. "
Liberty
Time
United
" Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused. "
Confused
Two
Same
" National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. "
Sovereignty
Will
Government
" 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. "
Claim
American
Community
" 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. "
Soldier
Airplane
Task
" 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. "
Political
Terrorism
Right
" Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies. "
Right
Activity
American
" Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others. "
Others
Eyes
Sometimes
" The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies. "
Jealousy
Resentment
War
" 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. "
Citizens
War
Greatest
" 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. "
Small
People
Doubt
" The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us. "
Than
Confront
More
" 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. "
Freedom
Action
Moral
" We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion. "
Sight
Difference
Lose
" We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe. "
Our
Ally
British
" We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington. "
Paris
Force
Should
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