Word: emption
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With a terror attack, its a little different. Complete pre-emption is actually possibleif youve got effective human intelligence, cooperation with immigrant communities and with other nations, and allocation of necessary resources to road, rail, port and airport security...
...Iraq has, of course, had enormous implications…[for example,] the doctrine of pre-emption, the incidents at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo,” Bhabha said. “Never before has America been the focus of so much political hostility...
KERRY: Let me emphasize: I'll pre-empt where necessary. We are always entitled to do that under the Charter of the U.N., which gives the right of self-defense of a nation. We've always had a doctrine of pre-emption contained in first strike throughout the cold war. So I understand that. It's the extension of it by the Bush Administration to remove a person they don't like that contravenes that...
Clark's new book, Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism and the American Empire, casts his trained eye on the Bush Administration's policy of nearly unilateral pre-emption and makes a cogent case for multilateralism. The book and Clark's military record offer insights into how good a general he was--and what kind of President he might...
...proliferation. He was deeply involved in making sure the current Administration withdrew from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 with Russia--a move that defense hawks believe was a necessary prelude to building a national missile defense. Joseph is also a firm believer in the Bush doctrine of pre-emption. At a Washington conference last October, he made the case that traditional deterrence does not work with rogue states such as Iraq. "There are no mutual understandings with these states," he said. "We must, if necessary, act pre-emptively...