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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...
...When pre-emption becomes impossible, the least you can do is supply people with the means of escape and survival. Thats what our courageous first responders did for countless New Yorkers on September 11, and what so many ordinary people have done throughout the floods. We may never know how many were saved by their heroic spirit of mutual...
...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...