President Bush's speech today before the U.N. General Assembly had many fine points, including this poignant section.
In the last year alone, terrorists have attacked police stations, and banks, and commuter trains, and synagogues -- and a school filled with children. This month in Beslan we saw, once again, how the terrorists measure their success -- in the death of the innocent, and in the pain of grieving families.Svetlana Dzebisov was held hostage, along with her son and her nephew -- her nephew did not survive. She recently visited the cemetery, and saw what she called the "little graves." She said, "I understand that there is evil in the world. But what have these little creatures done?"
President Bush, who earlier took time to visit the Russian Embassy to pay his personal condolences to the Russian people, knows the meaning of the "little graves."
Via C-SPAN, watch video (Real) of the President's speech before the stone-faced representatives of the U.N. General Assembly, an institution which can only call to mind Obi-wan Kenobi's description of the infamous Mos Eisley spaceport: