George W. Bush Quotes
We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.
Bush, George W. Remarks on the War on Terror. Washington, D.C., 2006.
Islamic extremists had killed thousands on Russian citizens and military men in Chechen, one of the states in Russia. At the time--before 9-11--Americans in the homeland had never been attacked by Islamic religious extremists as the Russians had. Some Americans were very critical of the Russians for using force and troops to deal with the terrorists and urged Putin to negotiate. This was Putin's reply. It was taken by many Americans as an unnecessarily hard line then. After 9-11, however, American views towards negotiations with terrorists generally resembled Putin in this quotation. Many Americans then developed much more sympathy with the Russian position on terrorism inside Russia.
Some Americans and Europeans have urged Putin to solve the Chechen problem politically---to sit down and negotiate with the leaders. The Chechen terrorists have been particularly brutal killing hundreds of children at a time. Putin felt that it was easy for Americans and Europeans to tell him to negotiation with terrorist murders while they would never do so with the terrorists that had killed their people in their countries. Chechen is a province of Russia where fundamentalist Islamic terrorists mounted an armed, violent, terrorist insurrection and then spread their terrorism to other parts of Russia. Brussels was the political capital of Europe.
The Taliban terrorists would try and kill, kidnap and hold people for ransom following a Muslim tradition dating back to the Barbary Pirates. While there is always pressure to negotiate to alleviate the immediate situation, the negotiation is in and of itself, a reward for the terrorism. Hence the general’s rigid view.
He had a lifelong hatred toward the Internal Revenue Service. Finally he crashed his single engine airplane into the IRS offices, killing an IRS agent and committing suicide in a different version of suicide bombing.
George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He was born into the Bush family; his father, George H. W. Bush, was the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993.
