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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_urchin who wrote (10960)	5/20/2006 2:12:43 PM
From: philv	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

The other day, I saw a man on TV advocating the principle or policy of "Preventative War". I had never heard that term before, and the contradiction is obvious and absurd. So I just googled it, and to my surprise, there exists many references and sites dedicated to preventative war. "A preventive war is a war in which one state attacks another under the proclamation of preventive self-defense. Preventive war and preemptive war differ in the certainty of an attack. While a preemptive war concerns an imminent attack, preventive war takes place with no military provocation and is therefore a war of aggression, forbidden by international law. The justification often used by states engaging in preventive war is that another state may attack them in the future – thus an attempt to prevent it." It seems that this is fully embraced by the Bush regime. In fact, the Iraq invasion was justified on those grounds; weapons of mass destruction and imminent danger. I am not nearly as convinced as you that war with Iran is off the books. We witnessed the run up to the Iraq war, which to many of us didn't make any sense at all, no matter how one looked at it or analyzed it, and yet it happened. What I am saying is that although war with Iran makes no sense, (for the U.S.) making sense obviously isn't a priority or objective for this administration.