And this could well bring about the result that even responsible states- men might find themselves compelled to wage a preventive war.
But a shift toward preventive wars is not one of them.
It is the old - I thought discredited - argument for preventive war.
While I thought the case for preventive war was strong, it wasn't decisive.
The candidates also need to tell Americans where they stand on the larger issue of 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."
One could argue that this was not even a "preventive war" given the circumstances.
Many in the West also seriously discussed the idea of preventive war.
Others have alternatively referred to it as a preventive war.
We are in disagreement - and this must be said - over the doctrine of preventive war.