 | Colin Dueck - 2008 - 235 pages
...destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles or secretly deploy them to terrorist allies. . . . We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge."60 And Bush actually began to implement this new strategy, piece by piece, in the months after... | |
 | Joseph Esherick, Hasan Kayalı, Eric Van Young - 2006 - 444 pages
...of preemptive war and the president declared before cheering cadets at the US Military Academy that "we must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge."39 By ignoring UN opposition to launch an invasion and bring about "regime change" in Iraq,... | |
 | Richard Sorabji, David Rodin - 2006 - 270 pages
...George W. Bush at West Point in June 2002. On that occasion, Bush asserted that 'the war on terrorism will not be won on the defensive. We must take the battle to the enemy ... and confront the worse threats before they emerge.'2 The Bush administration's rejection of UN... | |
 | Hans Köchler - 2006 - 242 pages
...Doctrine." He said: "If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long ... In the world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this nation will act ... And our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking... | |
 | Thomas E. Ricks - 2006 - 524 pages
...measures like creating a Department of Homeland Security, he said, "We realize that wars are never won on the defensive. We must take the battle to the enemy." In retrospect, the speech is even more stunning than it appeared to be then, because it has become... | |
 | Sven Matis - 2007 - 76 pages
...er, dass der Krieg gegen den Terror nicht in der Defensive gewonnen werden könne — im Gegenteil, „[w]e must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt...world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this nation will act." Zentral sei es künftig, so Bush weiter, für einen gerechten... | |
 | Roger A. Pielke, Jr - 2007 - 198 pages
...George W. Bush agreed on the need for a proactive mindset. In his June 2002 speech President Bush 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" (Bush 2002a). Diverse values and ample uncertainty As strategic... | |
 | Philip Purpura - 2011 - 512 pages
...United States government and then provides a list of a broad array of options for government action. 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. President George W. Bush, June 1, 2002 The US Government,... | |
 | Michael H. Hunt - 2007 - 416 pages
...as the Bush Doctrine. He declared the passive strategies of containment and deterrence out of date. "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action." That goal in turn meant keeping the us military so strong that it was "beyond challenge."... | |
 | Patrick J. Buchanan - 2007 - 316 pages
...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.23... | |
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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. 
