Political Quotes

Our counterterrorism doctrine has had a blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left. Even today, the very idea that far-left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right-wing fever dream.

When those commitments are not kept, which is what’s happened in this particular case, then there will be consequences. And that has to happen.

But a bomb planted by a Marxist revolutionary – well, that’s just merely a tragic excess of idealism.

What is at stake here is not simply the issue of what’s happening in the Straits of Hormuz. It’s a very fundamental principle about freedom of navigation.