...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...

...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."...

...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...

...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...

...weltpolitischen Themen wurden moderater. 13 Hans J. Morgenthau und die weltpolitische Gegenwartslage „We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...and confront the worst threats before they emerge." George W. Bush' Die weltpolitische Struktur verändert sich in dramatischer Weise. Nach der deutlichen...

...during the following year, most vividly at West Point in the spring of 2002, when the president warned, "we must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge."2 Its underlying logic goes back to a report on "Rebuilding Americas Defense" prepared by the...

...... If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long." Bush thus promised to "take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans,...and confront the worst threats before they emerge." Lest anyone not get the message, Bush insisted that "in the world we have entered, the only path to...

...containment and deterrence." Instead, it will actively pursue the strategy of "preemptive strike," "take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge." Second, the United States will work hard to export democracy, since "the requirements of freedom apply...

...irrelevant to the post-Cold War dangers of terrorism and proliferation, 35 and declared his determination to "take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans,...and confront the worst threats before they emerge." It is noteworthy that he left "the enemy" unidentified, thus reserving the widest possible latitude...

...countries if weapons of mass destruction are to be kept out of terrorists' hands. "We must take that battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge." Americans must be "ready for pre-emptive action when necessary to defend our liberty and to defend...