The writer of this screed has a blistering ignorance about the history of totalitarian dictators with the capacity and the taste for mass murder. His ignorance is of a piece with the "1,000 historians against war in Iraq" who were thoroughly discussed in a prior thread on FR. For a discussion of this kind of historical ignorance and political bias, see my latest on UPI, which was just posted on FR. (And, major thanks to FReepers for the thread here which inspired that article.)
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This has nothing to do with the history of totalitarian dictators. Pre-emptive strikes is not the way this country operates. Nor should it ever.