"Therefore we have to look ahead and say, ok, so we'll win the fight we're in but we also have to create a world where we have more partners and fewer potential terrorists. And how are we going to do that? We have to spread the benefits and shrink the burdens of the 21st century world, number one. Number two, we have to deal with the fact that most terrorists come from places that aren't democracies. And number three, we have to deal with the special challenges presented in the Muslim world, because Islam's our fastest growing religion in America, and we have to lift up the positive forces there, and encourage those with enough courage to stand up for them." -- Bill Clinton, November 7, 2001, Georgetown University, devlivering a speech on defeating terrorism by creating conditions where the use of terror is less acceptable in parts of the world.
"Clinton's prescription for victory was: 'First we have to do more to reduce poverty and create more economic opportunity'...Everyone wishes he'd just go away and stop sending himself botulism out of anthrax envy." Ann Coulter, November 14, 2001, leading the Republican charge on spewing venom on Bill Clinton and the minds of stupid liberals, who think there might be a way to prevent terrorism by making it less acceptable in parts of the world.
"I don't think you can win it." The president went on to say, "I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world." George W. Bush, August 29, 2004.
"And those free nations, in the heart of the Middle East, will begin to transform that region into a more hopeful place, which will be detriment for these terrorists to recruit." George W. Bush, August 31, 2004, trying, in a garbled mouthed way, to say that we need to, as Bill Clinton said, "deal with the fact that most terrorists come from places that aren't democracies" and "we have to lift up the positive forces there, and encourage those with enough courage to stand up for them".
Republicans. Steady. Resolute.
Slow learners.
and rich. :-(
Posted by: tj | August 31, 2004 at 09:36 PM