[George W. Bush]: Either you are with us are you are with the terrorists.
Strangely black and white world for some Deep Thinker who'd have us believe Christ is his favorite (narcissistic) philos-opher even as he uses our money to perpetuate the selling of human life for "hopeful" scrap.
| And then, we got to the American flag, which was quite close [and he asked] "if that's the bad guys, what does that one represent?" I said, "Well, that one represents the good guys – that's us." But, you know something my friends, if we keep going the way we're going, persisting in the path that we have persisted in … then we, the very country that more than once in this century has saved the world from the shadow of the worst evils will no longer be there in the 21st Century to save the world from the shadow of evil. And worse than that … we won't save the world from that shadow because we will be casting it. We don't get it, do we? We are either going to continue to be the country that holds before the world those ideas and standards of godly justice and liberty and decency for which so many of our patriots dies or we are going to turn into that power which plunges the world into a maelstrom of evil like nothing we have ever seen. I frankly don't think that for American there will be a middle way. And that's the truth of it. And we are already at it. For we've had an administration that has aided and abetted and promoted and coerced the culture of death in every continent and toward every nation on the fact of the Earth already. Using our capital and our money and our clout they have forced other nations to take the same ungodly stance toward innocent life in the womb that they take now. So my friends, don't think that this is just some future that we are talking about. We are already far down the road toward the destruction of our republic, our conscience, our decency. The question isn't whether we will choose that road but whether we will turn back now before we pass the point of no return. The American Heart ... the American Faith
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I couldn't help but think of our Clean Hands work on Serbia's civilian convoys as I watched the bewildered woman break down, hands clasped in prayer, as she wondered why the US wouldn't stop Saddam's helicopters as they mowed down the refugees.
"We are human too."
This is America. Depends on your meaning of "is", Ma'am.
| CHARLIE ROSE: We cannot, if I hear you correctly, fail here. Too much is at stake in terms of America's-- beyond the morality of the issue, but in terms of America's prestige and reputation and the credibility we have in the future. We cannot let this pass, and we cannot lose. ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: You're absolutely right. I think this is the first really complex challenge to American global leadership. And, if we falter here, the consequences would be devastating -- in the first instance, for Europe; secondly, for the American-European relationship; thirdly, for our position in the world; and then, in a sense, more generally for the kind of world that we will be living in the next few years.
this is a real test case of what the world is about to be. CHARLIE ROSE: So, if someone says to the president, ``Make the case why Kosovo is important,'' you say, ``This is a microcosm of the way the world is gonna be in the near future''?
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At least they're beginning to be more honest and up front with us.