>Patrick J. Buchanan, world net daily - The price of empire is terror. The
>price of occupation is terror. The price of interventionism is terror . . .
>Before, not after, the next terror attack on this country, America's leaders
>should start telling the truth: Evil though they may be, Islamic killers are
>over here because we are over there. They are not trying to kill us because
>they dislike our domestic politics, but because they detest our foreign
>policy. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia. They did not fly
>into those twin towers to protest universal suffrage or to advance
>self-determination for the Palestinian people. As Osama bin Laden said, they
>want us to stop propping up the Saudi regime they hate, and to get off the
>sacred Saudi soil on which sit the holiest shrines of Islam. They want our
>troops out of Saudi Arabia and if we don't get out, they are coming over
>here to kill us any way they can. That is reality. Now while America should
>use every weapon in her arsenal, from intelligence to diplomacy to war, to
>prevent terror and to punish terror, we must address the central issue:
>terror on American soil, and eventual cataclysmic and atomic terror on
>American soil, is the price of American empire. Is the empire worth it?
>French, Brits, even Soviets said no. They went home. And nothing over there
>not oil, not bases in Saudi Arabia, not global hegemony is worth risking
>nuclear terror over here. I may be the only right-winger in America who
>loves D.C., but then I grew up here. Washington is my hometown. It comes
>first, and empire isn't even a close second.
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