Gangway! We're going preemptive! (Devil In The Details).(Brief Article)

"PRE-EMPTIVE ACTION HAS a place in U.S. history," proclaimed a recent New York Times op-ed column by conservative journalist Max Boot. As if precedent were all, Boot reviewed a long list of nations into which the United States has barged either without a precipitating incident or with the slimmest of pretexts: Mexico (1846), Cuba (1898), Haiti (1915), the Dominican Republic (1916), the Dominican Republic again (1965--1916, apparently, didn't stick) and Grenada (1983).

"The president's pre-emption doctrine--and its first application in Iraq," Boot concluded, ...

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