Quote of the Day

[A] "war on militant Islam" is a mission crystal clear. It says: Our enemies have demonstrated that they will not be rehabilitated; we're here to kill or otherwise permanently neutralize them because, if we don't, they will live to kill us another day. It thus reasons that if our enemies are in Fallujah, we need to go into Fallujah and wipe them out. If that upsets parts of the Iraqi population, that's regrettable, but in the long run it gives them a better chance of future success, and, in any event, it's why we are in Iraq. We should make no apologies for doing what we went in to do.

~ Andrew C. McCarthy

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