Prof. Groeteschele:
Excuse me. Every minute we wait works against us. Now, Mr. Secretary, now is when we must send in a first strike.
Gen. Stark:
We don't go in for sneak attacks. We had that done to us at Pearl Harbor.
Prof. Groeteschele:
And the Japanese were right to do it. From their point of view, we were their mortal enemy. As long as we existed, we were a deadly threat to them. Their only mistake was that they failed to finish us at the start, and they paid for that mistake at Hiroshima.
Gen. Stark:
You're talking about a different kind of war.
Prof. Groeteschele:
Exactly. This time, *we* can finish what *we* start. And if we act now, right now, our casualties will be minimal.
Brigadier General Warren A. Black:
You know what you're saying?
Prof. Groeteschele:
Do you believe that Communism is not our mortal enemy?
Brigadier General Warren A. Black:
You're justifying murder.
Prof. Groeteschele:
Yes, to keep from being murdered.
Brigadier General Warren A. Black:
In the name of what? To preserve what? Even if we do survive, what are we? Better than what we say they are? What gives us the right to live, then? What makes us worth surviving, Groeteschele? That we are ruthless enough to strike first?
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