Lindsey Graham: “I echo the general themes of Senator McCain. This is an important event in the war on terror. He described very well…”

“I echo the general themes of Senator McCain. This is an important event in the war on terror. He described very well that this is about us, not the terrorists. The terrorists are not having this debate in their world. There is not much debate going on about how they should behave toward innocent people, how they should behave toward people under their control. We know how they behave. The war is about, Is that a justified way of doing business? The answer is, No. Everyone condemns what they do, everyone who believes in freedom. This war is about two sets of values, theirs and ours. As we adjust in the war on terror, I think we have to understand that adjustment is necessary, but the adjustments cannot equate to eroding what we are fighting for. I am all for the PATRIOT Act. I think it has been very good that we adjust the way we have electronic surveillance. I think it has been very good that we allow the intelligence community and domestic law enforcement personnel to talk to each other about what is going on in the terrorist world. We are knocking some walls down with the PATRIOT Act that have made us less secure. We are adjusting our military policy. We are adjusting our legal positions to adopt to a war that is new and different. Here is the new and different part about it: The enemy we are fighting is nontraditional in terms of the Geneva Conventions. I think the President instinctively got it right, right after 9/11.…”