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“Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.”

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Charles Krauthammer, an American renowned columnist, was born on March 13, 1950. He is known for his profound political analysis and unique insights, having won the Pulitzer Prize. more

“An institution that...would permit Iraq, a terrorist state that refuses to disarm, to become soon the chair of the United Nations Commission on Disarmament, and which recently elected Libya - a terrorist state - to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of all things, seems not to be even struggling to regain credibility. That these acts of irresponsibility could happen now, at this moment in history, is breathtaking.”

“I hate to think that someday Americans will be looking at the ruins of their cities and saying that this happened because their leaders were afraid of the word unilateral.”

Thinking War Hate Cities Leader Happened I Hate Ruins Someday

Book:Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays

Source: Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays

“The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.”

World Littles War Real Too Much Threat Stability American Power

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“The only argument this president needs to persuade Americans is that sacking Saddam is necessary for the security of America and the West, of civilization as we know it. All those other goals are nice, worthy even, but irrelevant to the job immediately at hand.”

Knows Needs War Hands Jobs America Goal President Nice Security Civilization Argument West Worthy Irrelevant Saddam Know It All Sacking

Author:Wesley Pruden

“By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste; he's a god of the earth, like one of the Grecian deities who lives on worldly mountains and descended for intercourse with men. But at night, over a stratus layer, all sense of the planet may disappear. You know that down below, beneath that heavenly blanket is the earth, factual and hard. But it's an intellectual knowledge; it's a knowledge tucked away in the mind; not a feeling that penetrates the body.”

“And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit, leaving you alone flying above a forgotten cloud bank, somewhere in the solitude of interstellar space.”

Ifs World Mind Seems Space Solitude Logic Leaving Forgotten Clouds Heavy Flying Flight Aviation Renounce Orbit Great Aviation Interstellar

Book:The Spirit of St. Louis

Source: The Spirit of St. Louis

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