http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAshcroft/2006/10/02/never_again_the_moral_imperative_for_toughness
"Never Again: The Moral Imperative for Toughness"
TOWNHALL.COM EXCLUSIVE
By John Ashcroft
Monday, October 2, 2006
SNIPPET: "Townhall.com Exclusive: a chapter from Never Again, the newly released book by former Attorney General John Ashcroft.
The United States will suffer more terrorist attacks during this war with al Qaeda. They are fanatical, relentless, and patient. Their leadership is scattered, killed, or captured; their safe have in Afghanistan is destroyed; their command and control structure has disintegrated. We are now at war with a diffuse, loosely organized network, united and motivated by a hatred for our nation and our core values. They are fed spiritually by bin Laden, and thrive in our society on the basic liberties they loath. The advance of civilization has dispersed technology, information, and destructive capacity so thoroughly that their network easily exploits these advances for their cause. This network will hit us again when they can.
I fear most the al Qaeda network’s access to weapons of mass destruction, because if they have them, they will use them. But we must concede that if al Qaeda shifted its focus in the United States form spectacular attacks against national symbols to “soft targets” such as schools, subways, and shopping centers, they would be more difficult to stop. Their affiliated networks have launched successful attacks on “soft targets” in other countries such as Spain, Great Britain, and Russia since 9/11. They have planned such attacks in the United States, but so far, they have failed. We can expect them to try again.
One simple but difficult principle provides the opportunity for the United States to achieve “never again.” That is: The will to win. The will to do whatever is necessary within the Constitution to protect America separates us from more death and destruction within our shores. It is the will to sacrifice, to persevere in the face of adversity and criticism just as generations of Americans did before us. It is no guarantee, but if we falter, grow complacent, or fail to do what we can, we give the terrorist network opportunities that, with time and patience, they will exploit to kill more innocent Americans."
True.
I don't know where the will to win is vis a vis fighting against the determination to trash our Republic on the part of the globalists like the leading DIMRATS; Scuba Teddy; the Treasonous Klintoons; Puhlousey; Boxerface; . . . the list of clearly guilty traitors goes on and on and on.
Dreadful.