Preemption Quotes

• Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Kind, Stage

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• If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.

  Byron Dorgan

  Thinking, Knows, Ifs

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• Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.

  Ellen Tauscher

  War, Order, Atmosphere

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• What would be the difference if we retreated and let the French and Germans make decisions for the world? We tried that twice in the last century. Isolationsim, refusing to accept our role in the world, and delaying our response to evildoers ultimately cost fifty-three million lives in World War 2 alone. The preemption policy of the Bush administration, taking the war to the enemy and exporting democracy and freedom, has liberated fifty million.

  Tammy Bruce

  War, Differences, Decision

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• It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation has been proposed to create a US Department of Peace. In the propsed Department of Peace it would organize our present system into one conscious effort to improve humanity in achieving peace, where true safety lies.

  Walter Cronkite

  Military, Lying, Safety

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• Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking everyone to pay their fair share.' But of course governments do not ask, they: tell. The Internal Revenue Service does not 'ask' for contributions. It takes.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, People, Decision

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• I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, School, Risk

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