 | Scott McClellan - 2008 - 370 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....world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this nation will act. The New York Times described this address as "a toughly worded... | |
 | Gerard A. Hauser - 2010 - 196 pages
...hoping for the best.... 1f we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long.... The war on terror will not be won on the defensive. We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt its plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge. Out of this state of emergency has emerged... | |
 | Gerard A. Hauser - 2010 - 196 pages
...hoping for the best. ... 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. We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt its plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge. The Aesthetics of Dematerialization I... | |
 | Sharon Pickering, Jude McCulloch, David Wright-Neville - 2008 - 145 pages
...internationally, he argued that: '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' (Bush 2005). US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, defending the United States' policy of indefinite... | |
 | Howard Jones - 2008 - 640 pages
...American military tradition by asserting that the United States could fire the first shot if threatened. "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...and confront the worst threats before they emerge. If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long." Many US military leaders... | |
 | George P. Fletcher, Jens David Ohlin - 2013 - 286 pages
...doctrine of preventive war, outlined in a speech at West Point in June 2002, states that the United States "must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge."13 He then added, "In the world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action.... | |
 | John E. Owens, John Dumbrell - 2008 - 278 pages
...of the Bush Doctrine, first proclaimed at West Point in 2002, the president emphasized the need to "take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge" (Bush 2002b). The assumption behind this strategy was that the Cold War doctrines of deterrence or... | |
 | Robert K. Brigham - 2008 - 240 pages
...graduation ceremonies in 2002 included these telling words: "We must take the battle to the enemy. ... In the world we have entered the only path to safety is the path of action." Bush was clear about his moral certainty: "Moral truth is the same in every culture,... | |
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...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....world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this nation will act. George W. Bush President of the United States of America... | |
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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. 
