The NSS is careful to specify a legal basis for preemption: international law recognizes "that nations need not suffer an attack before they can lawfully take action to defend themselves against forces that present an imminent danger of attack."
There's that word.
6 posted on 02/12/2004 5:58:54 PM PST by Huck
(OK. I'm over it.)
"The intersection of radicalism with technology the world witnessed on that terrible morning means that the persistence of authoritarianism anywhere can breed resentments that can provoke terrorism that can do us grievous harm."
Iraq's imminent danger.
38 posted on 02/13/2004 5:11:55 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez
(The Gift Is To See The Trout.)