"... evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us."

"... that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real--and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it."

"Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."

"In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."

"The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser's intellectual abdication that invites them to take over. When a culture's dominant trend is geared to irrationality, the thugs win over the appeasers. When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes."

I do still want to address the culpability of the "liberal defeatocrat congress" as well as those NeoCons ...

I fear I'd be the Fred Thompson to your John Edwards. (Indeed, why, exactly, was your sister stealing your clothes?)

The fact that the administration keeps making bad excuses for doing the right thing in a damn sloppy way doesn't make it the wrong thing to have done.

Finally, please don't call me a neocon without explicitly defining the term and giving the criteria I meet.

-neocons believe in a strong government, but only one which is administered by the right mind-set (Plato's philosopher-king; a man in charge who'll do the right thing for the Great Nation)

-neocons see value in the Noble Lie (because philosophers know better, and it's good to trick people into doing the right thing)

-influential neocons aren't appropriately religious, but claim to be so (because religion is a good tool to trick people into doing the right thing)

-neocons see value in imperialism and plunder (as long as it comes from nations who weren't doing the right thing)

-neocons see value in Wilsonian nation-building

-for some as-yet-to-be-understood reason, neocons tend to be disgruntled Jewish liberals (Kristol said he was a liberal mugged by reality; David Horowitz said something strikingly similar)