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October 31, 2004
Defeating vs. Creating Terrorists
The Choice: Different Instincts About Leadership (washingtonpost.com)
The best summary I've seen for why the election is so polarized. Iraq is a Rorschach test
Back last summer, John F. Kerry made an observation that struck him and his partisans as so self-evidently true it could hardly be disputed. The Democratic nominee said the U.S. intervention in Iraq so far has done more to recruit terrorists than to defeat them.
President Bush reacted with a disdain and disbelief that no one who heard it could doubt was genuine. "I don't think they need an excuse for their hatred and their evil hearts. You do not create terrorists by fighting back; you defeat the terrorists by fighting back."
Posted by rich at October 31, 2004 02:34 AM
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