 | Christopher Cerf - 2003 - Страниц: 738
...terrorist allies. We cannot defend America and our friends by hoping for the best. We cannot put our faith in the word of tyrants, who solemnly sign non-proliferation...to fully materialize, we will have waited too long. Homeland defense and missile defense are part of stronger security, and they're essential priorities... | |
 | James Moore, Wayne Slater - 2004 - Страниц: 426
...will not stand by as peril grows closer and closer," the president told his West Point audience. "lf we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will...war on terror will not be won on the defensive" "We cannot defend America and our friends by hoping for the best." The language was unmistakable and not... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations - 2003 - Страниц: 94
...problem succinctly in his important June 2002 Commencement Speech at West Point. "We cannot put our faith in the word of tyrants, who solemnly sign non-proliferation treaties, and then systematically break them." Thus, the US concentrates all its effort on proliferation cheaters. Focusing on cheaters, and even... | |
 | Jeffrey T. Bergner - 2003 - Страниц: 236
...international arms agreements — any longer of much help. Again, President Bush: "We cannot put our faith in the word of tyrants who solemnly sign nonproliferation treaties and then systematically break them." In the pre-September 11 world, preemption seemed downright dangerous. Hence, President Clinton could... | |
 | Malcolm Downing, Sara Beck - 2003 - Страниц: 228
...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... | |
 | Carolyn B. Thompson, Jim Ware - 2003 - Страниц: 316
...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... | |
 | Greg Ward - 2004 - Страниц: 436
...also require new thinking . . .We cannot defend America and our friends by hoping for the best ... If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long . . . We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before... | |
 | Michael Lind - 2009 - Страниц: 228
...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... | |
 | Michael Waldman - Страниц: 363
...terrorist allies. We cannot defend America and our friends by hoping for the best. We cannot put our faith in the word of tyrants, who solemnly sign non-proliferation treaties, and then systemically break them. If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long.... | |
 | Sandra Mackey - 2003 - Страниц: 438
...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,... | |
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Containment is not possible when unbalanced dictators with weapons of mass destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles or secretly provide them to terrorist allies. 
