Sentences with phrase «of preemptive war»

In a speech in March 2003 he asked whether President Bush's United Methodist Church had failed him, and the world, by catechizing him so poorly that he could speak of preemptive war as a divine blessing.

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In a letter to Obama at the time, Brennan said he was «a strong opponent of many of the policies of the Bush administration, such as the preemptive war in Iraq and coercive interrogation tactics, to include water boarding.»

Putin says he has no plans to start a preemptive nuclear war, but was very clear that sanctions would not deter him — and that the West should be very careful about how it proceeds in other parts of the world.

Another GW Bush kind of guy leading us for some «God told» crusade to launch some «preemptive» wars, this time against maybe Iran, or China???? The price tag?

It violates our most basic God - given rights just as Jesus would not advocate aggressive preemptive wars killing thousands of innocent civilians as a means of attaining peace.

So Teabagger, why have my taxes been used on a preemptive (at best) war in Iraq that I do not approve of.

Nelson - Pallmeyer's description of a foreign policy that has moved from containment to preemptive offensive war is fascinating, troubling and always historically informed.

Cardinal Ratzinger said that «preemptive war» is not part of just - war doctrine.

The passions of war aroused, we diverted attention from Afghanistan to the prospect of a preemptive strike against Iraq, not simply to remove banned weapons but to replace the regime.

One year later, he issued a remarkable document titled «National Security Strategy of the United States of America,» which declared the right of the U.S. to wage preemptive wars on rogue states.

The «grave and gathering danger» hanging over the world is not so much the danger that Saddam Hussein presents (as President Bush insists) but the danger of American preemptive war against Iraq.

It would violate standards of international law and create a dangerous precedent for other nations (China, India, Pakistan, Russia) that will decide to engage in preemptive wars that they believe are justified.

Preemptive war is a matter of negating an imminent attack on one's own forces, territory or allies.

Characters in zombie films are willing to do terrible things to each other because of the fear of zombies and the urge for self preservation, while, in the real world, things like the use of torture (or «advanced interrogation»), preemptive war and drone strikes were being debated as options to fight a threat even scarier than zombies: terrorism.

A preemptive war is unjust for a very simple reason: it can not be just to condemn masses of people to certain death in order to avert the potential death of an equal or lesser number of people.

While many of its premises appear rational, the document has serious deficiencies, which the author examines in detail, including extension of the justification for a preemptive war to include a preventive war.

Preemptive wars, abridgments of civil liberty, cuts in social service, subsidies to churches, and other like initiatives are not just wrapped in the flag; together with the flag, they are swathed in the holy.

1Technically the preemptive attack would not need to end with the occupation of the country; war is justified until it is clear that the threat that started it has been removed (vg nuclear weapons surrendered and facilities dismantled).

And I would say for sure this threat of a US preventive war — quote unquote preventive war, whatever that is, illegal preemptive strike against North Korea — would have so much freaked out the North and the South Koreans that, I mean the Congressional Research Service says that in the opening days of a conventional military conflict, three hundred thousand people would be killed, right?

The big government (s) at the time were still considering whether a preemptive nuclear first strike might be a good strategy (the idea that World War III could be won in a few days or a week and without a lot of collateral damage)-- or not.

One of the most powerful of the mutants, Magneto (Ian McKellen), believes that Kelly's words are the first volley of a battle that will turn into a war, and he intends to launch a preemptive strike for mutantkind - something to head off the struggle before it begins.

How the U.S. government could launch a preemptive war based on false premises is the subject of the first, relatively short part of this book.

The big government (s) at the time were still considering whether a preemptive nuclear first strike might be a good strategy (the idea that World War III could be won in a few days or a week and without a lot of collateral damage)-- or not.

But does this security issue relate to the main provisions of the climate bill, or more to how much the Pentagon and State Department spend on preemptive risk reduction as opposed to war - fighting, on the scope and focus of American foreign aid, on building prosperity and resilience in Africa and South Asia?