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LIEBERMAN: At this moment, we must not yield to despair or defeatism. We have overthrown a cruel tyrant who was brutal to his people and was a dedicated and declared enemy of the security of the United States of America. We should have no regrets for that noble cause that was accomplished and the noble effort that we continue to make in Iraq.

Millions of Iraqis have participated in free elections. An imperfect democracy has been created, but it is a democracy, and it is struggling to survive. And it is now our responsibility to rise above politics, particularly partisan politics, and together, as Senator McCain has shown the way, to forge and advance a new strategy that will lead us to victory in Iraq and to victory in the larger war against terrorism.

LIEBERMAN: But we're getting to a point where the rest of the countries in the world, particularly our NATO allies and others, have to understand that the enemy here just ain't us.

The enemy is the rest of the civilized world. I mean, these folks -- these extremists -- are talking about building an empire, a caliphate, that everyone, regardless of ideology or nationality or religion, ought to be opposed to. It will be totalitarian. It will be women's rights, gay rights. Give me a break. It will be the end of all that we value. Individual freedom; forget about it.

So I think it's time for a lot of the rest of the world to stop letting us do it.

We're very strong and we see the threat and we've had the guts and we've got the resources to do it. But everybody is the enemy here. Most everybody. And they ought to be joining us in this fight.

In Afghanistan, NATO is. We need NATO and a lot more in the war against Islamist extremism if we're going to win it throughout the world.