 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform - 2004 - Страниц: 288
...different from those of World War 1 1 or the Cold War. President Bush gave us a new direction when he said, "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this nation will act." Our nation cannot afford to wait for terrorist adversaries... | |
 | Patrick J. Buchanan - 2007 - Страниц: 272
...to terrorist allies. ... If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long. [T]he war on terror will not be won on the defensive....confront the worst threats before they emerge. In this world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this nation will act.... | |
 | Roger Burbach, Jim Tarbell - 2004 - Страниц: 260
...promise of massive retaliation against nations, means nothing against shadowy terrorist networks ... the war on terror will not be won on the defensive....and confront the worst threats before they emerge.' This would require 'preemptive action', he declared (Bush 20023). This marked the advent of what became... | |
 | Elaine C. Hagopian - 2004 - Страниц: 340
...to punish US-designated aggressors by striking first and when not expected, anywhere in the world: The war on terror will not be won on the defensive....and confront the worst threats before they emerge ... ... Our security will require transforming the military you will lead — a military that must... | |
 | Jane Boulden, Thomas G. Weiss - 2004 - Страниц: 272
...us with the world's most destructive weapons." He went on to tell the 2002 West Point graduates that "the war on terror will not be won on the defensive....and confront the worst threats before they emerge." 31 Evidence uncovered in the caves of Afghanistan, after alL had documented Al Qaeda's interest in... | |
 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger - 2004 - Страниц: 184
...sufficient weapons for the war against terrorism. "We must," he said, "take the battle to the enemy . . . and confront the worst threats before they emerge....world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this nation will act." On July 19 that year, at Fort Drum, New York, he said again:... | |
 | Ron Suskind - 2004 - Страниц: 369
...long," the President said, speaking at the commencement of the 204th graduating class of West Point. "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...and confront the worst threats before they emerge." Bush, in a saber-rattling address, said, "The only path to safety is action. And this nation will act."... | |
 | Brian Loveman - 2004 - Страниц: 388
...June 2002, President George W. Bush made clear that the era of containment and deterrence had passed: "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...and confront the worst threats before they emerge. . . . Our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for preemptive... | |
 | John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge - 2004 - Страниц: 482
...explained, "If we wait for threats to fully materialize we will have waited too long."2" He continued, "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...and confront the worst threats before they emerge." As with so many things in diplomacy, it is possible to claim that there were precedents for this. The... | |
 | Bryan Hilliard, Tom Lansford, Robert P. Watson - 2004 - Страниц: 302
...Bush said that the "Cold War doctrines of deterrence and containment" were outmoded, and in the future "we must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...and confront the worst threats before they emerge." Bush made it clear that in the "war on terror" the United States would engage in the preemptive, unilateral... | |
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We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge. In the world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this nation will act. 
