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...prepares an appropriate response, it should remember that restricting the freedom of citizens to travel is typically a method employed by tyrannical dictatorships and not by prosperous democracies. Imperiously declaring which countries our citizens may not visit demotes us to the likes of Mussolini, Stalin or Kim Il-Sung, who, on a more extreme note, would not let citizens escape the borders of famine-ridden North Korea...
...then, many wars are. In World War II, Roosevelt and Winston Churchill made common cause with Stalin--"Uncle Joe" for a brief while, but in the full measure of his life, a bloodstained monster--in the fight against fascism. Even heroes compromise, and Churchill has long been a hero of Bush. When he welcomed five religious leaders to the Oval Office last week, the President pointed out a bust of the British leader. Churchill, Bush once told TIME, was the political leader he most admired, and Card says that since Sept. 11, Bush has spoken of Churchill often...
...course, holier-than-thou political correctness may be an intolerable luxury right now. War is a messy business, in which you work with whomever shares your immediate objectives, no matter how odious their domestic policies. Remember that without Stalin in the Western camp, Hitler could conceivably have won World War II. But in the long term, eliminating the root causes of terror will involve, if not complete democracy, at least allowing citizens of Middle Eastern countries some voice their governance...
...define a new world, to orient the work of the federal government around the central idea of defeating terrorism just as Truman and The Wise Men like Dean Acheson and Averill Harriman and George Marshall reoriented the federal government around the idea of defeating communism. They succeeded, of course; Stalin?s nuclear weapons and takeover of Eastern Europe combined with Mao?s triumph and war in Korea had a way of focusing the mind. Perhaps the attack on Manhattan will do the same...
...define a new world, to orient the work of the federal government around the central idea of defeating terrorism just as Truman and The Wise Men like Dean Acheson and Averill Harriman and George Marshall reoriented the federal government around the idea of defeating communism. They succeeded, of course; Stalin?s nuclear weapons and takeover of Eastern Europe combined with Mao?s triumph and war in Korea had a way of focusing the mind. Perhaps the attack on Manhattan will do the same...