David Hackworth Quotes
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Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.
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Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.
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Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there.
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Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.
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Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.
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Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people.
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Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away.
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Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.
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That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!
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If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
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The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.
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War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.
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In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.
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Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.
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That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.
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Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.
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It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.
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We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.
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Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.