Word: preemption
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...episode of The Colbert Report featured an approximately five-minute interview with Dershowitz, who was promoting his new book, “Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways,” which was released today...
...reversal of expected positions, the Republicans are the ones favoring radical changes to the status quo in all sorts of situations. Republicans now want to remove large numbers of troops from Germany and South Korea, democratize the Middle East, follow the “Bush doctrine” of preemption, and amend the constitution to ban gay-marriage. While not textbook “liberal” positions, these policies are nonetheless very serious changes to the status quo. “Liberal” can have all sorts of different meanings, but in modern American parlance it has come...
...terror” is not a battle against evil-incarnate. It should be a campaign to prevent desperate, angry people from taking up arms against us—and when they do so to defend the world from their attacks. It should not be a war of preemption against a list of potential adversaries; it should be a program of crucial preemptive action against the poverty, ignorance and political oppression which create the conditions under which terrorist groups thrive...
...real lesson from Iraq is that preemption requires pristine intelligence. Clearly, we don’t have pristine intelligence,” he said in his speech sponsored by the Institute of Politics...
...view of Powell's comments might be that he is seeking to heal the rift with Europe - the Europeans are hardly going to be convinced by Vice President Cheney's plea for moving on at the same time as insisting that the Iraq invasion was a timely and prudent preemption of a "grave and gathering danger". Powell appears to be acknowledging that the antiwar Europeans may indeed have been right, or at least that the outcome of the conflict has not exactly repudiated their opposition...