One Tough Sailor

While discussing the need for more international cooperation in combatting terrorism and piracy at sea, new Navy chief Adm Mike Mullen had some choice words for the enemy:

They are wrong,” he said sharply. “They will not prevail. They will not succeed. Their message of despair and fear and hatred will, in the end, sway no one. Theirs is a small world of small-minded ideas. They offer nothing in return for the sacrifices they seek, not even the hope of hope itself.”

Here is the Admiral's bio.