Patricia Schroeder: “I must say this is a day where all of us shudder at what is going on in the Middle East. While we were so optimistic…”

“I must say this is a day where all of us shudder at what is going on in the Middle East. While we were so optimistic about the whole peace process, today is a day where it looks like the terrorists are willing to risk anything to get it derailed. You know, making peace is not for cowards. It is for the toughest and the strongest because they will test you and test you and test you because lesser beings and the demons that are around there want so much to continue the turmoil. If they can continue the turmoil and the terror, then they feel they are in charge. The thing I think is so important to point out on these last horrible incidents is clearly the people doing this are not acting alone. These are not just somebody who is going out and doing this by themselves. There is a tremendous infrastructure supporting them, and that infrastructure must be sought out and destroyed. These are not mere happenstance. These are not independent contractors. These are folks who belong to some well-organized group that is putting a lot of thought into how to be as destructive of human life as possible, and these people are despicable, and we should do everything we can to go at them. Today I would like to ask Attorney General Reno and the wonderful National Institute of Justice to get to the Israelis anything we have in the technology that would help crack that infrastructure.”