People understand, I think, that however much Americans might wish to leave the world alone, the world will not leave America alone. Great wealth and great success generate great envy and great hatred. And America's high ideals, if clutched jealously to America's chest, while those abroad who believe in them are hunted down and slaughtered without help, will whither and die. Idealism, like terrorism, has - can have - no borders.
John Derbyshire, National Review Online, September 12, 2001
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