Words: Giuliani believes that interrogation and surveillance should be effected “legally, but aggressively”. He argues that terrorists can’t be addressed with “accommodation, appeasement, and compromise” and strongly supported the reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act. “There is no room for neutrality on the issue of terrorism You’re either with civilization or with terrorists.”

Actions: Giuliani has not served in the US military; he avoided military service in Vietnam with an occupational deferment arranged by a prominent Republican judge. His mayoral administration constructed a state-of-the-art command center for catastrophic events - in the city’s most likely terrorist target, the World Trade Center. Giuliani’s numerous press appearances in the wake of the September 11 attack are said to have “brought some measure of assurance to his grief-stricken, traumatized constituents”.

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