Preemptive war

Preemptive war . . .

Quotable Quotes

Preemptive war "punishes the defenseless not for what they have done or are doing but for what they might have done or could do." -- Eduardo Galeano, PaxHumana, September 2003.

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Other Related SourceWatch Resources

• Defense Science Board
• National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Proactive Preemptive Operations Group

External Links

Preemptive War Against Iraq

• Paul W. Schroeder, Iraq: The Case Against Preemptive War. The administration's claim of a right to overthrow regimes it considers hostile is extraordinary - and one the world will soon find intolerable, The American Conservative, no date.
• Alan Bock, [Preventive or Preemptive War?], Eye on the Empire, September 10, 2002.
• William Galston, Perils of Preemptive War. Why America's place in the world will shift -- for the worse -- if we attack Iraq, The American Prospect, September 23, 2002.
• Stephen Murdock, Preemptive War: Is It Legal?, DCBar, January 2003.
• Michael E. Salla, An Exopolitical Perspective on the Preemptive War against Iraq, Exopolitics, February 3, 2003.
• Eliot Katz, To Declare Pre-emptive War is to Declare a Bankruptcy of the Imagination, CounterPunch, February 28, 2003.
• Robert Schneer, Preemptive war crimes. Driven by a coterie of neoconservative ideologues -- and the accidental president in their sway -- we are hours away from becoming international outlaws, Salon.com, March 12, 2003.
• Steven R. Weisman, Doctrine of preemptive war has its roots in early 1990s, International Herald Tribune, March 24, 2003.
• Howard Dean, Bush: It's Not Just His Doctrine That's Wrong, CommonDreams, April 17, 2003.
• Joel S. Beinin, Ivan Eland, and Edward A. Olsen, Preemptive War Strategy: A New U.S. Empire? (Transcript), Independent Institute, June 25, 2003.
• Ulrich Arnswald, Preventive War or Preemptive War, IndyMedia, September 3, 2003.
• Stan Crock, Preemptive War Is the Wrong Weapon, BusinessWeek Online, October 22, 2003: "the electronic newsletter sent out by Chuck Spinney, a retired Pentagon analyst ... starts out with a quote from the late journalist H. L. Mencken: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety] by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."