preventive war

NEWS: Adoption of nuclear first-strike posture

by Paul Woodward 11.09.2007

U.S. plan envisioned nuking Iran, Syria, Libya By Spencer Ackerman, TPM Muckraker, November 5, 2007 Despite years of denials, a secret planning document issued by the U.S. military’s nuclear-weapons command in 2003 ordered preparations for nuclear strikes on countries seeking to acquire weapons of mass destruction, including Iran, Saddam Hussein-era Iraq, Libya and Syria. A [...]

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ANALYSIS & EDITOR’S COMMENT: Cheney takes a sabbatical

by Paul Woodward 10.15.2007

Pre-emptive caution: the case of Syria By David E. Sanger, New York Times, October 15, 2007 It was President Bush who, a year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, rewrote America’s national security strategy to warn any nation that might be thinking of trying to develop atomic weapons that it could find itself the target [...]

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OPINION & EDITOR’S COMMENT: The phoenix of preventive war arises from Syrian ashes

by Paul Woodward 10.14.2007

Preemption, Israeli style By Joshua Muravchik, Los Angeles Times, October 14, 2007 Last month, one of the more mysterious episodes in the history of the Arab-Israel conflict began to leak slowly into the news. Although the facts are still unconfirmed, what seems to have happened has major implications not only for the region but even [...]

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