preventive war

The candidates also need to tell Americans where they stand on the larger issue of preventive war.

Many in the West also seriously discussed the idea of preventive war.

But a shift toward preventive wars is not one of them.

Preventive war against a tyrant who is about to attack.

So far, the preventive war doctrine has had one real test: the invasion of Iraq.

Others have alternatively referred to it as a preventive war.

One could argue that this was not even a "preventive war" given the circumstances.

While I thought the case for preventive war was strong, it wasn't decisive.

We are in disagreement - and this must be said - over the doctrine of preventive war.

It is the old - I thought discredited - argument for preventive war.

Preventive wars are initiated by countries against states that have not yet been attacked.

The other logic for preventive war, he notes, is reducing casualties.

And this could well bring about the result that even responsible states- men might find themselves compelled to wage a preventive war.

And that is a problem for the administration, because history and international law have frowned upon preventive war.

Americans may be convinced of their determination not to launch an aggressive or preventive war.

He would demand preventive war, for example, only to hear an opponent say that "anyone who does so is a criminal against the Jewish nation."

And preventive war is only aggression with good intentions.

It will be more diverse in its interests than any single state, thus less likely to resort to aggressive or preventive war.

You'll all go down, but McCarthy is never going to make a speech about preventive war again.

We can interest them in a preventive war.

That needed for preventive war is quite another, if only because of the consequences of making a mistake.

Congress's oversight was an abject failure leading up to the preventive war on Iraq.

In our view, a preventive war neither guarantees world security nor complies with international law.

It is utterly impossible that the United States will start a "preventive war."

In the Persian Gulf, preventive war is becoming more necessary every day.