Mike Pompeo

I was the CIA director.

I knew a few.

And hunting does indeed work best when you create a hunting party, when you want friends with you, because you never know if the monster himself is hunting in a pack, like China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea are doing today.

And as much as we don't want to hunt, I'm a former soldier, no one likes war, the alternative, letting the monster grow until it has much greater capacity for destruction, is deadly and dangerous and un-American.

One way or another, you must confront the monster.

You know, I've been to Dover, Delaware, where we transfer the remains of our fallen soldiers and look the families in the eye and told them that these young men and women did what was noble and decent in helping America and the world, Canada, Western civilization hunt monsters.

When they come from the shadows, we have work to do.

You know, it was a monster who held the two Michaels.

He held them captive.

These Canadians did nothing wrong, but Xi Jinping didn't care one iota about that, in the same way that he lost no sleep when millions of people died as a result of a virus that he refused to allow the world to do the good work necessary to protect against.

Western civilization, indeed basic decency, demands that our nation not be cowards of the world.

And just as Tommy did his best for years to avoid picking a fight, there comes a moment.

We either hunt now or fight later.

And to us, the answer is clear.

These folks have never met a monster that they weren't willing to downplay, deny, or explain away.

But we recognize the eternal truth.

In Isaiah 520, it says, "'Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, "'who put darkness for light and light for darkness.'"

Monsters are real, and when we find them, we must hunt them.

This is what human decency demands.

You don't let a radical regime close off the global economy by firing Shaheed missiles into nations that did nothing.