On November 6, 2000, the day before the election, Republican nominee George “Bush told an enthusiastic crowd in Chattanooga, Tennessee: ‘Let me tell you what else I’m worried about, I’m worried about an opponent who uses nation-building and the military in the same sentence. See, our view of the military is for our military to be properly prepared to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.’ ”
– Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone, Page 135