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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (8236)	4/5/2003 10:10:30 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 21614

Actually the Bush "doctrine" of pre-emption is a reaction to 9/11. Alexander the Great used the doctrine of pre-emption to cross the Dardanells to crush the Persians before they would once more attack Greece. Of course, the Persians would have moved against them again eventually, so this could be called pre-emption. However, then you say After Alexander finish crushing Persia, he simply extended the doctrine to Egypt, Palestine, Central Asia and India, you don't seem to recognize these were all parts of the Persian Empire. Indeed, in order to mount an invasion of the Persian Empire, he needed to conquer the east coast of the Mediterranean and Egypt to protect his read and southern flank when moving against Mesopotamia. I don't think anything the Mongols did could be considered as pre-emption as they weren't threatened by any of the countries they attacked. Also your sequence is wrong. Genghis Khan used the doctrine of pre-emption to crush his tribal rival and then expanded it first to all of Mongolia, then to China, then to central Asia and India, and then to Persia, Palestine, Turkey, Russia and then Europe.