#m

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam. ↗

— David Hackworth

#against #american #american people #because #did

Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy. ↗

— David Hackworth

#develop #eliminate #enemy #fortunately #global

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time. ↗

— David Hackworth

#alive #boots #drill #fists #i

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie. ↗

— David Hackworth

#easy #modern #movie #script #war

Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there. ↗

— David Hackworth

#course #imperative #iraq #our #quickly

Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away. ↗

— David Hackworth

#away #been #beirut #both #cut

Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people. ↗

— David Hackworth

#american people #commitment #everyday #exists #happen

Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us. ↗

— David Hackworth

#born-again #convert #days #east #either

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#constructed #i #make #my own #own

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#chapter #hate #heard #i #last