Deterrence - the promise of massive retaliation against nations - means nothing against shadowy terrorist networks with no nation or citizens to defend. Containment is not possible when unbalanced dictators with weapons of mass destruction can deliver... The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions - Стр. 269авторы: Christopher Cerf - 2003 - Страниц: 736Ограниченный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Dominic McGoldrick - 2004 - Страниц: 396
...sense and self-defense, America will act against such emerging threats before they are fully formed. We cannot defend America and our friends by hoping for the best. So we must be prepared to defeat our enemies' plans, using the best intelligence and proceeding with... | |
| Robert Patterson - 2004 - Страниц: 280
...sense and self-defense, America will act against such emerging threats before they are fully formed. We cannot defend America and our friends by hoping for the best. So we must be prepared to defeat our enemies' plans, using the best intelligence and proceeding with... | |
| Horst Fischer, Avril McDonald - 2011 - Страниц: 1046
...nation or citizens to defend. Containment is not possible when unbalanced dictators with weapons of mass destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles...solemnly sign non-proliferation treaties, and then systemically break them. If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long.... | |
| John W. Dietrich - 2005 - Страниц: 342
...nation or citizens to defend. Containment is not possible when unbalanced dictators with weapons of mass destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles...solemnly sign nonproliferation treaties, and then systemically break them. If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long.... | |
| Gary Rosen - 2005 - Страниц: 268
...a means of dealing with the dangers now facing us from Iraq and other members of the axis of evil: We cannot defend America and our friends by hoping...nonproliferation treaties, and then systematically break them. Hence, Bush inexorably continued, If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited... | |
| Catherine Keller - Страниц: 204
...tank. . . . [Deterrence and] containment [are] not possible when unbalanced dictators with weapons of mass destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles...secretly provide them to terrorist allies. . . . We will lift this dark threat from our country and from the world. . . . More and more, civilized nations... | |
| David I. Steinberg - 2005 - Страниц: 404
...West Point commencement speech, "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. . . . Because the war on terror will require resolve and patience, it will also require firm moral... | |
| Melvin Gurtov, Peter Van Ness - 2005 - Страниц: 316
...build weapons of mass destruction. Containment will not work "when unbalanced dictators with weapons of mass destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles or secretly provide them to terrorist allies." Hence, the United States has to respond differently: "If we wait for threats to fully materialize,... | |
| John Podhoretz - 2005 - Страниц: 306
...Soviet communism. But, Bush said, 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." If deterrence and containment no longer work, then what? In a word: Preemption. Bush declared that... | |
| Timothy Shanahan - 2005 - Страниц: 316
...nation or citizens to defend. 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.1 In response to these "new threats," President Bush proposed a dynamic shift in our strategic... | |
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