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Because only after we've eradicated the enemy can we then get down to the true work of keeping this new democracy breathing.
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So it's basically kill people to help people."
"I' d like to see Bin Laden dead and gone as much as anybody, but I just don't understand how you cannot want to look at the past, not think it's critical."
"We both put our fighting men at risk. Now, I 've admitted my mistakes. When will you? You know, in a sense, we're on the same team. We're team-mates. We both have a responsibility. You've already sold the war. Now, I' m asking you to help me sell the solution."
"If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.— Theodore Roosevelt"
「Did I like what they did? No. Did I agree with it? No. In fact, it broke my heart. That doesn't mean I don't revere the reasons. They believed the best way to change things in this country was to go fight for it."
"The best way to double the size of the problem is just to turn your back on it."
"World War I, German soldiers wrote poems about the bravery of British grunts, admired them, almost as much as they laughed at the British high command who wasted those same grunts by the hundreds of thousands. A German general wrote: "Nowhere else have I seen such lions led by such lambs." Christ, that statement
is so dead-on right now. These starched collars that started this war, that are running it now, nowhere near the best and the brightest, not even in the same galaxy. They're the ones that, when some of our men are blown to bits in the middle of a gun battle, say shit like, "The enemy may bloodied our nose, but we're learning from mistakes.""
"How do we know you're going to get it right this time? You know, people are very mistrustful. After 9/11, we had the whole world on our side. Here we are six years later, stumbling through one of the worst times ever to be an American."
"They bank on your apathy, they bank on your wilful ignorance. They plan strategies around it. They try to figure out how much they can get away with because of it.」
"What good is a $90,000 Benz if there's not only not enough gas in the tank but the streets and highways are decaying to the point of becoming Third World? If all your rants about Congress and politics are true, if things are really bad, as bad as you say they are, when thousands of American troops are dead and more are dying everyday probably as we speak, you tell me, how can you enjoy the good life? Rome is burning, son, and the problem is not with the people that started this. They're past irredeemable. The problem's with us. all of us. who do nothing, who just fiddle, who try to manoeuvre around the edges of the flame. And I'll tell you something, there are people out there, day to day, all of the world, that they're fighting to make things better.
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You think it's better to try and fail than fail to try? But what if you end up in the same place?
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At least you did something."
"What happened to you, Howard? Time was you would take a punch at anybody if you thought it was justified. You know, you were good once. You can't leave me hanging out here by myself. You just can't do that to Wrong. you expected me to turn in a tidy time line. If we don 't do this, who's gonna do it? This is the job! These politicians, these journalists, everybody that says: "Oh, well, if we'd known then what we know now..." It's bullshit! It's bullshit. It was all right there. We knew it, if we had bothered to connect the dots. But we didn't, did we? We just rolled over, right?」
"The decisions you make now, bud, can't be changed but with years and years of hard work to redo it... And in those years you become something different. Everybody does as the time passes. You get married, you get into debt... But you're never gonna be the same person you are right now. And promise and potential... It's very fickle, and it just might not be there anymore.
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Are you assuming I already made a decision? And also that I'll live to regret it?
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All I'm saying is that you're an adult now... And the tough thing about adulthood is that it starts before you even know it starts, when you're already a dozen decisions into it. But what you need to know , Todd, no Lifeguard is watching anymore. You're on your own. You're your own man, and the decisions you make now are yours and yours alone from here until the end.」
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