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"For every jihadi who joins the fight against the U.S. because “they hate our freedom,” a hundred join because “they hate our bombs.”"

If I steal your money to buy a baseball bat, then handcuff you to me and drag you into a biker bar where I start whacking the biggest guy I can find with my baseball bat, saying to him “My good pal here and I are here to teach you and your ugly friends a lesson, fatso,” would you have grounds for complaint? (Assume the biker guy is a genuine criminal who needs suppressing.)

- Roderick Long

it has always been so.

"Without bin Laden, the War Party would have nothing: we'd still be in the post-cold war era, when many conservatives were saying, along with Patrick J. Buchanan, "America, come home," and it was the liberals who were rediscovering the joys of interventionism, in the Balkans and elsewhere. Without the War Party, bin Laden would be a marginal figure, with no following and little hope of attracting any. The two forces coexist in a dynamic symbiosis, each reinforcing and feeding the other – allies in all but the formal sense. "

- Justin Raimondo