4. In discussing this topic I am often told, “You would not think that way if your loved ones were killed by terrorists.”—I would like for this statement to be false, but it probably is not. I am a Special Forces Sailor and know myself well enough to know that I would seethe with the desire to destroy my enemy—to meet him and feel his blood run warm on my hands—but the best way to destroy him may not be to meet him. I would like to think I was strong enough to remember that point. However, the point is moot because as I was directly affected by an attack, I would no longer be, nor consider myself to be, a candidate for making policy decisions. People making policy decisions must be firmly founded and unemotional; the must be strategically detached. They must be considering as many variables as available and making conscious well thought out decisions with the desire to solve the problem. Not be right, not win votes—but to solve the problem. If my loved ones were killed by terrorists, I would no longer be qualified to discuss antiterrorism policy---long term national strategy---I, the personal I, could no longer be trusted to make decisions that where good for the nation or the world---my decisions may be being made to assuage my hate. Hate does not belong in policy.