Is Preemption Preempted?
David E. Sanger writes in a New York Times analysis that the Senate intelligence committee report deals a serious blow to Bush’s doctrine of preemption. That’s because most of the assumptions cited in launching the nation’s first preemptive war, on Iraq, turn out to have been wrong. “Mr. Bush’s aides say other countries are citing Iraq to make the argument that America can never again be sure it is getting it right and thus must back away from the pre-emption doctrine enshrined in Mr. Bush’s 2002 ‘National Security Strategy of the United States.'” Today’s Calendar Sanger notes that Bush today “is going to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, a center of nuclear weapons technology, to speak about his counterterrorism strategy. Oak Ridge is the repository of the centrifuges, raw uranium and other nuclear equipment that the United States shipped out of Libya this year, in the most conspicuous success story yet of how to disarm a country without attacking it.” Steve Holland writ
