Robert Dornan: “Thank you for reminding us of that. Because if the audience on C-SPAN is 1.3 million going toward 1\1/2\ million, I mean…”

“Thank you for reminding us of that. Because if the audience on C-SPAN is 1.3 million going toward 1\1/2\ million, I mean dedicated people who have really come to know their government by watching C-SPAN, we can ask 1.3 million people right now to pray for these 2 fellow Americans to give them courage. The worse part of their captivity is over: the slapping around, the torture, some beatings. Now comes the boredom and the drudgery. Dick Lugar, U.S. Senator, has gone out further than any of us calling for military action. People say, ``Well, isn't that your style, Mr. Dornan?'' No, I am holding back my thunder because I think this is a crude bluff, and I think that diplomatically is probably the way to force this dictator's hand. However, a friend of mine who is a great movie director, John Milleous, did ``Flight of the Intruder,'' did a movie with Brian Keith, I think it was called ``The Wind and the Lion,'' about an American held captive in North Africa by one of the Berber leaders in Algiers or Morocco. Teddy Roosevelt was the President then, and he came out with a simple sentence. I believe the man's name was Porteralis, ``alive or rastuli,'' dead. That was the Arab chieftain or warlord. The American citizen was soon released, and it turned out he was a Greek citizen about to become an American, and he did become an American.”