I was home friday watching this bullshit, and this passage popped out at me.
For a while, American foreign policy was just, Let's hope everything is calm _ kind of, managed calm. But beneath the surface brewed a lot of resentment and anger that was manifested on September the 11th.
And so we've taken a foreign policy that says: On the one hand, we will protect ourselves from further attack in the short run by being aggressive in chasing down the killers and bringing them to justice.
And make no mistake: They're still out there, and they would like to harm our respective peoples because of what we stand for.
In the long term, to defeat this ideology _ and they're bound by an ideology _ you defeat it with a more hopeful ideology called freedom.
And, look, I fully understand some people don't believe it's possible for freedom and democracy to overcome this ideology of hatred. I understand that. I just happen to believe it is possible. And I believe it will happen.
replace freedom and democracy with christianity and ideology of hatred with islam, what do you get? another holy war.
wars have always been a part of human history, but can we refrain from fighting about imaginary things, like religion.
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