[Siobhan]

Just war is a basic principle. Justify pre-emption for your own nation, and another nation like a great Russian bear will use the same to justify pre-emptive strikes. Such has already happened many times. We used to condemn it, but now it is “the Bush doctrine” and it is a terrible mistake in tactics and philosophy.

[jveritas]

If Russia starts a pre-emptive war to protect their nation from an imminent danger such as islamic terrorist threat then they need to do it and we should support them.

[kabar]

Justify pre-emption for your own nation, and another nation like a great Russian bear will use the same to justify pre-emptive strikes.

It is current US policy to not rule out first-use of nuclear weapons. Do you think we should change that policy, which is the cornerstone of our nuclear deterence? Should we wait for an enemy to attack first before responding?