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Reagan Proved That Deficits Don't Matter.

We Also Have To Work, Though, Sort Of The Dark Side, If You Will. We've Got To Spend Time In The Shadows In The Intelligence World. A Lot Of What Needs To Be Done Here Will Have To Be Done Quietly, Without Any Discussion, Using Sources And Methods That Are Available To Our Intelligence Agencies... That's The World These Folks Operate In, And So It's Going To Be Vital For Us To Use Any Means At Our Disposal, Basically, To Achieve Our Objective.

The Threat Is There. It's Very Real And It's Continuing. And What The Obama People Are Doing, In Effect, Is Saying, Well, We Don't Need Those Tough Policies That We Had. That Says Either They Didn't Work, Which We Know Is Not The Case - They Did Work, They Kept Us Safe For Seven Years - Or That Now Somehow The Threat's Gone Away. There's No Longer A Threat Out There, We Don't Have To Be As Tough And Aggressive As The Bush Administration Was.

We Were Trying To Get All Of The Planes Down Out Of The Sky. And We Watched As The Towers Of The World Trade Center Collapsed - Something No One Expected And Anticipated. And You Could Sit There And See And Be Aware That Thousands Of People Were At That Moment Being Killed As A Result Of The Terrorist Attacks That Struck The United States.

I Think We May Well Have Some Kind Of Presence There Over A Period Of Time... The Level Of Activity That We See Today From A Military Standpoint, I Think, Will Clearly Decline. I Think They're In The Last Throes, If You Will, Of The Insurgency.