http://www.usni.org/Seminars/AnnualMeeting/04/annualmeeting04LehmanQA-2.htm

No longer available but the quotation stands on its own…

From the page:

“Finally, there are places in the world, not very far from you, that are very friendly with you, that have accepted terrorism as the norm for 30 or 40 years. And yet, I have been to bars in Boston where I have seen collections for more aid with “Would you like to put a dollar in here to kill a British soldier?” And as far as I can see, the response of your organization has been to accept that. Even as powerful as you are, you are going to need friends in the future. You’ve needed friends in the past. And the best friends that you have, in this country, are the United Kingdom. I’d just ask you to remember that.”

Whenever I hear Americans go on about the ‘War on terror’ I remember this and I remember those who died at the hands of the IRA.