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From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Re: Stodolsky's latest
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:31:12 +0200

On 24 Jun 2006, at 17:39,  wrote:

>
>> According to the 2002 policy document from the National Security
>> Council, any challenge (not necessarily of a military nature) to  the
>> USA will be met by military force.
>
> This is belly-laugh stuff, and anyone who can't see this needs   
> more help
> than I can provide.

Here is some easy reading for those who haven't been able to keep up  
with current events:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Doctrine

The Bush Doctrine has come to be identified with a policy that  
permits preventive war against potential aggressors before they are  
capable of mounting attacks against the United States, a view that  
has been used in part as a rationale for the 2003 Iraq War.
Historical critics of preventive war (although obviously not in the  
context of the Bush Doctrine) include former US President Abraham  
Lincoln. In an 1848 letter to his law partner, William Herndon,  
Lincoln criticized then US President Polk's preventive war against  
Mexico:

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall  
deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so  
whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose,  
and you allow him to make war at pleasure.... If today he should  
choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the  
British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him,  
"I see no probability of the British invading us," but he will say to  
you, "Be silent; I see it, if you don't."
Abraham Lincoln


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