The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
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When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally.
I think many people simply feel like they don't recognize their country anymore.
It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.
Nobody else in the world can do what we can do. And nobody else is willing to do it for altruistic reasons. I mean, we don't go into places like Iraq to grab their oil or colonize their country. We go there to deliver, as George W. Bush said, the blessings of liberty.
Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.
My goal has always been to figure out how we can advance the conservative cause.