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So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

- Michael Ledeen

Mostly, Profoundly, Created, Human History

Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.

- Michael Ledeen

Centuries, Iranians, Fairly, Arabs

The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.

- Michael Ledeen

Excel, Identifying, Attacks, Iranians

The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

- Michael Ledeen

Very, Iran, North, Tyrants

Fighting back against Iran is difficult and costly. No American president from Carter to Obama has been willing to take it on.

- Michael Ledeen

Against, Been, Willing, Costly

Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.

- Michael Ledeen

Before, Regional, Several, Terrorist

If you're convinced that you face bad options, then by all means take the least bad.

- Michael Ledeen

Face, Means, Take, Options

I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently.

- Michael Ledeen

Think, Act, I Think, Rice

It's hard not to be in favor of taking down monsters.

- Michael Ledeen

Down, Hard, Favor, Monsters

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

- Michael Ledeen

China, Civilization, Nation, Pretending

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