Jon Kyl: “I wish to remark on something Senator Lieberman and I had been hoping to launch and then discuss in a little more…”

“I wish to remark on something Senator Lieberman and I had been hoping to launch and then discuss in a little more detail, a subject on all of our minds, and that is the kind of challenge we face as the leading country in the world in this current war on terrorism. I am very pleased that Senator Lieberman has joined with me and others, or I with him--I think he was the first and I was the second, to put it that way, to correct the record--in a reinstitution of the Committee on Present Danger. This is the third iteration of that committee, twice begun during the cold war--during the first stages of the cold war and then the later stages of the cold war--to ensure that America understood and was willing to face the threat of Communists and communism in a way that would result ultimately in victory. There were times in the beginning of the war where I think there was an inadequate appreciation of the nature of that threat and how long a struggle it would be and how we prepared and how Americans would have to persevere in order to win that cold war, and then at a midpoint in the war when it seemed as if detente and acceptance of a permanent status of communism was really the only way the United States could ensure we would have peace in the future began to creep into our policy in so many ways that, again, the committee was formed and, under new leadership, said there is an evil in the world--communism--and we cannot coexist in it.…”