Quote of the Day... 1st of Tammuz / 8th of July

.... 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.

- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice being interviewed on BBC with Jonathan Beale.

Complete interview can be found on the IMRA website (with additional commetary within).