There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
I trust that your readers will not construe my words to mean that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.