39 Quotes by David Hackworth

What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was ‘Loose Lips Sink Ships’ and the media has really got to follow that.

It’s human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn’t banging loudly on the door.

Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can’t be treated just where it’s visible – every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it’s fixed.

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.

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

We citizens don’t need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

That’s what supporting the troops is really all about – making sure American grunts get the right stuff!

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.