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To: KLP who wrote (39187)	4/13/2004 7:43:39 AM
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More from George Shultz on terrorism... Stanford Report, January 23, 2002 Terrorists have taken advantage of weak nation-states, Shultz tells SIEPR audience news-service.stanford.edu BY LISA TREI The concept of the sovereign nation-state must be reinvigorated as the fundamental unit of responsibility and governance if the war on terrorism is to succeed, former Secretary of State George Shultz said Thursday. >>>> 88888888888888888888 US hawks embrace 'hot pre-emption' By Jim Lobe June 5, 2002 atimes.com WASHINGTON - For geo-strategists here, the hot new phrase in the US war on terrorism is "hot pre-emption". Coined in a speech by former secretary of state George Shultz last week, the phrase has already been featured prominently by several influential columnists, including two who strongly favor pre-emptive US military action against Iraq, as a further refinement of the so-called "Bush Doctrine". While President George W Bush has not yet used the precise phrase, he devoted most of his speech on Saturday to the graduating class of the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, to the idea that Washington will no longer rely on deterrence against terrorists but will strike them first, even if they are found, as in Afghanistan, across international borders. >>>>> 8888888888888888888888 Hudson Institute Doolittle Dinner Honoring George Shultz Remarks by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Washington, DC, Wednesday, May 29, 2002. United States Department of Defense Speech On the web: defenselink.mil Media contact: +1 (703) 697-5131 Public contact: dod.mil or +1 (703) 428-0711 >>>>>>George taught me many things. He was the first to tell me that there's no such thing as an ex-Marine. I have to tell you, George, that after one of our Marine generals used the term "eviscerate" a bit prematurely to describe the Taliban in a Pentagon briefing, my Marine colonel who's my military assistant said, "We Marines may not know what eviscerate means, but we sure know how to do it." [Laughter and applause]<<<<<< >>>>>>On a very different issue from our vantage point today we can look back and see how prescient George Shultz was in addressing the scourge of international terrorism. George advocated 15 years ago that the use of force must always be a last resort, but again he understood with whom he was dealing and said that force, even preemptive strikes, cannot be ruled out, as he put it, "when other means of influence have proven inadequate."<<<<<<<