(Washington Times) Tony Blankley - Henry Kissinger, the high mandarin of the American foreign-policy establishment, has endorsed the president's pre-emptive war strategy. In justifying "bringing matters to a head with Iraq," he has stated: "While long-range American strategy must try to overcome legitimate causes of [Islamic] resentments, immediate policy must demonstrate that a terrorist challenge...produces catastrophic consequences for the perpetrators, as well as their supporters, tacit or explicit." In other words, we must break the will and pride of all those in the Islamic world who would dare terrorize us and the international system.
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