“Several weeks ago [at a principal’s meeting on September 15, 2001], [President] Mr Bush told aides: ‘At some point, we may be the only ones left [in the coalition fighting terrorism]. That’s okay with me. We are America.’ Coalitions are all very well, he was saying, but if necessary the United States was powerful enough to go it alone.”
– Comment to Personal View Section, “We Must Realise Bush Meant What He said: This is War,” The Telegraph, Feb. 7, 2002