"A horrible nuisance"

"There will not be a treaty signed aboard the battleship Missouri, but we can break [terrorism's] back so that it is only a horrible nuisance and not a paralyzing influence on our societies."

-- Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser under George H.W. Bush

Politics · Mon, 10/11/2004 - 08:09 · · Importance: 1

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Let me see. Some washed-up has-been apparatchick wants to bring terrorism to the level of mere nuisance. And Kerry wants it be a mere nuisance.
And your point is what exactly?

And how would you like a mere nuisance with an occasional small nuke going off?

Posted by: mik at Oct 11, 2004 10:56 AM


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