 | Simon Shen - 2007 - 254 pages
...and missile defense are part of stronger security, and they're essential priorities for America. Yet the war on terror will not be won on the defensive....and confront the worst threats before they emerge. [O]ur security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for preemptive... | |
 | Greg Cashman, Leonard C. Robinson - 2007 - 436 pages
...the post 9/11 world: "If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long . . . the war on terror will not be won on the defensive....and confront the worst threats before they emerge. . . . Our security will require all Americans ... to be ready for preemptive action when necessary... | |
 | John R. Deni - 2007 - 136 pages
...Point commencement speech: If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long... the war on terror will not be won on the defensive....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... | |
 | Sean Michael Flynn - 2008 - 344 pages
...nation waited for terrorist threats to fully materalize, it would be too late to defend against them. "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...and confront the worst threats before they emerge," Bush proclaimed in his first enunciation of his strategy of preemption. "In the world we have entered,... | |
 | Michele Hunter Mirabile - 2007 - 285 pages
...manual was changed within three months. Commander Kay L. Hartzell, (retired) US Coast Guard TWENTY-EIGHT "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...and confront the worst threats before they emerge. " President George W. Bush In 1975, Michele Hunter Mirabile joined the Women's Army Corps. Shortly... | |
 | Michael Byers - 2007 - 224 pages
...degree of pre-emption that extended towards the preventive - or even precautionary - use of force: 'We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...and confront the worst threats before they emerge.' Even if the threats are not imminent, 'if we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited... | |
 | Robert H. Ferrell - 2007 - 363 pages
...to defend our lives. ... If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long. We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...and confront the worst threats before they emerge." Not only terrorists groups but rogue states "could attain a catastrophic power to strike great nations."... | |
 | Rod Thornton - 2007 - 253 pages
...that American lives will be endangered if it takes no action.126 'We must', as President Bush put it, 'take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge."27 Thus the US and some of its allies are now acting according to the premiss of 'anticipatory... | |
 | Thomas Oliphant - 2007 - 316 pages
...form and forums for months, the message was that the United States would not wait. Or, as Bush put it, "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worse threats before they emerge. If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited... | |
 | Colleen E. Kelley - 2007 - 348 pages
...concerns. The "logic" of such a crisis is that Americans must be afraid: We realize that wars are never won on the defensive. We must take the battle to the enemy. We will take every step necessary to make sure our country is secure and we will prevail. Much has... | |
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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. 
