LAUNCHING A 'PREVENTIVE' WAR
Trudy Rubin, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, 9/10/02
http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/opinion/4037894.htm
In a feat worthy of Houdini, the Bush team has transformed the Iraq debate
into a question of the World vs. Us rather than the World vs. Him.
This is indeed mind-bending magic. Saddam Hussein is a menace, a global
outlaw whose regime is busy brewing weapons of mass destruction. How to
handle him is a serious dilemma, not some ploy to cadge votes at midterm
elections. Yet the way the White House has handled the Saddam question
might make one think otherwise. Much of the world -- not to mention a
growing number of Americans -- already does…
If preventive war is OK for the United States, why shouldn't India attack
Pakistan to wipe out its nuclear weapons? Why shouldn't Russia invade
neighboring Georgia, which has become a refuge for Chechen terrorists who
cross into Georgian mountain valleys?
You get the picture. Launching a preventive war is a very big step, with
global repercussions. It would be tantamount to telling the world that the
United States assumes the right to attack anywhere, anytime, without any
casus belli. Today Iraq, tomorrow Iran, next day North Korea? That is
exactly the new doctrine Bush spelled out in a West Point speech in April…
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