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| Richard Perle
A free society is not an unpoliced society. A free society is a self-policed society. Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest. But even a nation of laws must understand the limits of legalism. Between 1861 and 1865, the government of the United States took tens of thousands of American citizens prisoner and detained them for years without letting any one of them see a lawyer. Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now. National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane. The administration's solicitude for Muslim sensitivities might well have been interpreted by many Muslims as a vindication of bin Laden's methods. The FBI must return to the job it does best: catching criminals. It should be fired from the counterterrorism job it has bungled, and its counterterrorism units and employees should be reassigned to a new domestic intelligence agency. There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated. |
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