The CIA and the FBI had been amassing increasingly ominous and detailed clues about potential threats in Kenya, but the State Department bureaucracy still dismissed [the ambassador]. She was even seen by some at the State Department as a nuisance who was overly obsessed with security ...

The practice of netwar is well ahead of theory ...

"The gloves are off," one senior official said.

"After 9/11, the gloves come off."

Is more what we really need?

"You can't talk sense to them," Bush said, referring to terrorists. "Nooooo!" the audience roared.

This is the road to despotism. This is the fevered dream of theocracy. This is America.

That which keeps us safe also keeps us free ...

Virginians soon will be able to sport vehicle license plates bearing the words "Fight Terrorism" emblazoned in red letters ...

Empathize with your enemy.

He's going to stay in the can until we're through with al-Qaida.

From a cop on "The Wire": "You can't even call it a war. Wars end."

The most basic way to rob terrorism of its potency is to be unafraid of it.

Do you ever have that experience in life where you can see things coming but you don't know what to do about it? Foreign policy is like that, too.

You don't have to be a cynic to believe that the point of the warnings is not to save lives so much as political hides.

If you can force them to have a liberal democracy you can force them to do all kinds of things.