...defend," he declared in June 2002. "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." Rumsfeld made the same point. The United States had entered "a new era of vulnerability; one in which...

...nations, means nothing against shadowy terrorist networks with no nation or citizens to defend.. . . 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.... The war on terror...

...nations, means nothing against shadowy terrorist networks with no nation or citizens to defend.... We cannot defend America and our friends by hoping for the best.... 1f we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long.... The war on terror will...

...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....

...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. The Bush Administration vows to strike first against terrorists rather than retaliate after an attack....