"What do they [Delta Force] have that we [FBI SWAT] dont have?" "Lots of things." [...] "I dont see any handcuffs. We dont have handcuffs. [...] Its not my job to arrest people." Oh? Oh! Websters eyebrows curved like his beloved St. Louis arch as the realization dawned that since the military resolved situations with bullets, there might be no one left to be taken to jail."
Danny Coulson is a former Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI. In his thirty-year tenure at the FBI, Coulson created and commanded the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team and commanded four field divisions.
"We consoled ourselves with the thought that we would never face terrorists as well trained, equipped, or courageous as Delta operators. "Go home tonight and pray to God that no Delta personnel ever decide to go bad," I told Don Brigham, one of our dead."
Danny Coulson"Our SAS hosts got a big kick out of our confusion. Its the nature of the people in Hereford to protect us, explained an officer. They believe that if you have business with the SAS, you damn well ought to know how to get there, and if you have to ask directions, youre probably a terrorist or stupid, and in any event, they arent about to help you."
Danny Coulson"That the snipers managed to pick off five terrorists in pitch darkness attested to their superior marksmanship, but in law enforcement, unlike war, success is never measured by the number of adversaries killed. All that counts is lives saved, and the Germans scored zero."
Danny Coulson"He had an ego so big the joke around the Bureau was We gave Buck a zip code but he wanted an area code."
Danny Coulson"They spew all sorts of conspiracy theories about black helicopters and the New World Order, but in their hearts, theyd love nothing more than to be a Green Beret or a Delta commando or HRT operator. Theyre well aware they cant pass the physicals, let alone the intelligence or psychological tests. In fact, they never succeed in anything they tackle."
Danny Coulson"At times like this, I flashed back to a movie Id seen as a boy, The Charge of the Light Brigade, about the massacre of a brigade of British lancers during the Crimean War. [...] They claimed to have done it for glory and honor, but how could slaughter be glorious? [...] I always prayed the same prayer: No heroes. Dont make them be heroes to get this job done."
Danny Coulson"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
Rumi"yes is a pleasant country... love is a deeper season than reason"
E. E. Cummings"true lovers in each happening of their hearts live longer than all which and every who"
E. E. Cummings"What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way."
E. E. Cummings"Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flower Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God! God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge"Unchanged within, to see all changed without, Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt. Yet why at others Wanings shouldst thou fret? Then only mightst thou feel a just regret, Hadst thou withheld thy love or hid thy light In selfish forethought of neglect and slight."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge