To be perfectly fair, "global test," he did say that he would pre-empt when necessary.
Which brings up the obvious but unasked question of just what his "global test" would consist of. Can't someone ask him how he defines it?
No, what he said was an oxymoron. Orwellian doublespeak. Whatever you want to call it. He got two soundbytes out of it "I reserve the right to take preemptive military action" for moderates and "I will only use military force if it passes the global test" for all the liberals". And this is obvious by their latest campaig ncommercial where they only show the quote about preemptive action, yet cut off the three words that IMMEDIATELY follow: "The Global Test."