American President George W. Bush told a group of military officers in Washington, "Radicals have declared their uncompromising hostility to freedom. It is foolish to think that you can negotiate with them." President Bush told his audience that history teaches that underestimating "the words of evil and ambitious men" is a tragic mistake. "We are a nation at war, and America and her allies are fighting this war with relentless determination across the world" against Muslim efforts "to establish [a] violent political utopia across the Middle East, which they call a Caliphate." 

--Hizbullah terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah has told a Lebanese newspaper, "If we have to choose between a foolish prime minister and another who is strong and capable, we prefer that the fool remain." Nasrallah declared that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's "victory" in the war against Hizbullah terrorists was putting the terrorist leader in a bunker.