"The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army."

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It would have been very alarming - morally, and in other ways too - if an attack of that nature, the 11 September attacks, had not aroused in us and in our governments and societies the spirit of self-defence. If that had not been one of the responses it seems to me there would have been very grave cause for concern.

— Christopher Hitchens