Killer ping.
"Let's do it to them before they do it to us."
I guess the point he's saying here is about his lefty audience - I assume he still meets many of them who think it's all about Arafat. He's got a tough road to go, going by his need to emphasize what seems to me obvious. Lefties have no interest in "facts" unles they support or can be contorted to further an anti-American ideology, or at least, attitude.
Noble of him, though. I wish him good luck. Maybe he'll come to realize that his buddies are the blind ones, despit pretensions otherwise.