President Bush Delivers Graduation Speech at West Point

Autor: George W. Bush

Fecha: 1 Junio, 2002

Resumen: Este discurso enuncia las bases de la doctrina de "preemption":

For much of the last century, America's defense relied on the Cold War doctrines of deterrence and containment. In some cases, those strategies still apply. But new threats also require new thinking. Deterrence -- the promise of massive retaliation against nations -- means nothing against shadowy terrorist networks with no nation or citizens to defend. Containment is not possible when unbalanced dictators with weapons of mass destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles or secretly provide them to terrorist allies...

If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long.

We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge...

[o]ur security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for preemptive action when necessary to defend our liberty and to defend our lives.

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