Doug Feith: "We Are Collateral Damage".

• Author: Book, Elizabeth G.
• Position: Washington Pulse - Defense Department undersecretary comments on terrorist attacks against Middle Eastern countries - Brief Article

One of the lessons the United States should have learned from the Cold War is that morality is crucially linked to morale, said Douglas J. Feith, deputy undersecretary of defense for policy. "It is one of the strategic vulnerabilities of our enemy that, in this war on terrorism, ... the killing of innocent people is morally repulsive to decent people around the world," he said.

"We [the United States] are collateral damage in the attack that some of these [terrorist] groups are directing at their real targets, which are the rulers of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt and other...