Interviewer: But those people then were fighting for their country. Edelman: They were fighting for their world. Free and democratic. Just like those who died during the martial law [in Poland in 1981-3]. Did they die only for Poland? No. They died for the freedom of the whole Europe for the freedom of all those enslaved behind the Iron Curtain.
Interviewer: But the Spanish withdrew their troops from Iraq after the terrorist attack in Madrid. Edelman: Please don’t tell me what the Spanish did. So what? Do you seriously think that it will save them from further attacks? No. The weak just get punched in the head. Pacifism lost a long time ago.
Interviewer: Is it possible to introduce democracy by force? Edelman: Yugoslavia showed that it’s possible…
Interviewer: You used your own personal history and your moral authority to appeal for the intervention then.
Edelman: Yes… Those who say that you don’t have to fight for freedom don’t understand what fascism is. I do.