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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
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| By IMRA July 9, 2005 |
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SECRETARY RICE (in a BBC interview following the London bombings): .... This is a worldwide war against ideals. If that is indeed what has happened, if that is indeed who's behind this, we just have to remember there's no separate peace to be made with terrorists [IMRA: except Palestinian terrorists - they can be put on the payroll of the security forces] The terrorists are after our way of life and we have to defeat them [IMRA: Except Palestinian terrorists - they have to be co-opted
into the parliament].
There is no other way to deal with them than through strength [IMRA: Except Palestinian terrorists: they have to be won over with concessions and operations against them should be restricted out of concern for the "process"].
...And that means that we're dealing with a region of the world, the Middle East, that is not normal. It's not normal for people to strap suicide belts on themselves and kill other innocent people[IMRA: though in polls a substantial part of the "normal" Palestinian public supports it]. It's not normal for people to fly airplanes into buildings.
.... These jihadists have been training for quite a long time. We have to confront them. And the notion that somehow if you just leave them alone, they'll go away, is just not right. We have to confront them. [IMRA: except in the case of Palestinians - the US may not necessarily want the terrorists to take over - but they can run for election and if they win - those are the
breaks.].
...you have to fight this war on the offense[IMRA: and retreat in Gaza]. That's why you have to take away territory from places like Afghanistan [IMRA: and give it in northern Samaria]. That's why you have to fight in the mountains of Pakistan. That's why it's important to have new and stable democracies in the Middle East in places like Lebanon or Iraq. That's why
you have to fight this war on the offense and win against not just the terrorists who perpetrate an attack on any given day, but the ideology of hatred that spawns it.
... But in the longer run, our goal has to be to replace this ideology of hopelessness and hatred in the Middle East with freedom and liberty, which when people are living in freedom and liberty, they don't want to send their children off to be suicide bombers [IMRA: except the Palestinian leadership and society, which praises their "martyr" suicide bombers...] .
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