McCain Surrogates: Obama ‘Delusional’ on Terrorism

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"[I]t is my firm belief that we can track terrorists, we can crack down on threats against the United States, but we can do so within the constraints of our Constitution. And there has been no evidence on their part that we can’t.

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And, you know, let’s take the example of Guantanamo. What we know is that, in previous terrorist attacks — for example, the first attack against the World Trade Center, we were able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial. They are currently in U.S. prisons, incapacitated."

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"The criminal justice approach to dealing with international terrorists, particularly when they are suicidal and are able to pull off plots like Sept. 11, has not worked. It was tried for essentially eight years, from the first year of the Clinton administration up until Sept. 11 in the first year of the Bush administration. It was a miserable failure. We need an approach that combines law enforcement, where appropriate, with intelligence, with going after terrorists where they are, with the approach toward the war that we are in fact in, and not [the] approach that ignores that we are in a war against Islamist terrorism — sometimes suicidal– and therefore not really deterrable under normal criminal justice procedures."