Bush doctrine: Hit first (Has he gone mad?!!!! Now we know why Cheney is having the taxpayers build him a bomb shelter IMO)
He also won't rule out responding to terror attacks with nukes
No, mad is waiting for a foreign power or agency to kill hundreds, thousands, or millions of Americans before acting. It has been American policy for decades that we would use "all means" in responding to a chemical, biologic, or nuclear attack on the US or its allies.
The difficulty with WMD or terrorist attacks, unlike conventional armed force, is that the window of opportunity to detect and counter an attack is so slight. Knowledge of the "imminence" of the attack is not enough, if you don't know the details of the attack. There are no massive troop movements, no cue to indicate the nature and window of opportunity of the attack. As was demonstrated on 9/11 (which there were indications of the "imminence" of an attack), the actual attack can and most likely will be sudden, totally by surprise, and massive in damage. To counter such threats requires eliminating the threat BEFORE the threat is staged.
Otherwise, you're in the position of asserting that we should ALLOW Americans to die, in massive numbers, before acting. That is unconscionable.
Derek |
