...mass destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles or secretly provide them to terrorist allies. We cannot defend America and our friends by hoping...to fully materialize, we will have waited too long. Homeland defense and missile defense are part of stronger security, and they're essential priorities...

...mass destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles or secretly provide them to terrorist allies. We cannot defend America and our friends by hoping...solemnly sign non-proliferation treaties, and then systemically break them. If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long....

...overturning of a fifty-year policy of deterrence in exchange for a proactive preemptive strike policy: We cannot defend America and our friends by hoping...solemnly sign non-proliferation treaties, and then systemically break them. If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long....

...President Bush put the problem succinctly in his important June 2002 Commencement Speech at West Point. "We cannot put our faith in the word of tyrants, who...non-proliferation treaties, and then systematically break them." Thus, the US concentrates all its effort on proliferation cheaters. Focusing on cheaters, and even...

...national security — international arms agreements — any longer of much help. Again, President Bush: "We cannot put our faith in the word of tyrants who...nonproliferation treaties and then systematically break them." In the pre-September 11 world, preemption seemed downright dangerous. Hence, President Clinton could...

...relentless attempts to obtain weapons of mass destruction were proof of the uselessness of arms control. "We cannot put our faith in the word of tyrants who solemnly sign nonproliferation treaties and then systemically break them," Bush said in his West Point speech. "The era of arms control is dead " said...

...fundamentalism. Speaking to graduating army officers at West Point on 1 June 2002, President Bush declared: 'If we wait for threats to fully materialize we will have waited too long.' The march along the road to war with Iraq was accelerating. ****** All of this was watched from Baghdad...

...Bush felt it was more important to stay the course. In June 2002, in a speech at West Point, he said, "If we wait for threats to fully materialize we will have waited too long." By August he was saying, "We will look at all options and we will consider all technologies available...

...writings of Wolfowitz and his allies for a decade. First, pre-emptive wars against countries like Iraq: "If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long." Then, an American nearmonopoly on military power worldwide: "America has, and intends to keep, military...

...available."1 In early June, the president, as if confirming Rice's analysis, told the cadets at West Point, "If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long."2 Thus by the end of 2001, Iraq had moved into the crosshairs of American guns. In January 2002,...