lpara
03-08-2003, 11:06 PM
<span style='font-family:verdana'><span style='color:3300CC' >George Will
March 7, 2003
Time to defend America
"We no longer live in a world where only the actual firing of weapons represents a sufficient challenge to a nation's security.'' --President Kennedy, during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
WASHINGTON--Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions.
The war against Iraq has begun--much as America's war against Nazi Germany really began months before Pearl Harbor and Hitler's Dec. 11 declaration of war on America. It began when President Roosevelt ordered aggressive patrolling by the U.S. Navy against German submarines in the North Atlantic. On--note the day--Sept. 11, 1941, he said:
"Do not let us split hairs. Let us not say, `We will only defend ourselves if the torpedo succeeds in getting home, or if the crew and the passengers are drowned.' This is the time for prevention of attack.''
Many in the Bush administration believe that France is comprehensively complicating NATO actions for no better reason than that the United States favors the actions (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/gw20030307.shtml)</span></span>
March 7, 2003
Time to defend America
"We no longer live in a world where only the actual firing of weapons represents a sufficient challenge to a nation's security.'' --President Kennedy, during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
WASHINGTON--Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions.
The war against Iraq has begun--much as America's war against Nazi Germany really began months before Pearl Harbor and Hitler's Dec. 11 declaration of war on America. It began when President Roosevelt ordered aggressive patrolling by the U.S. Navy against German submarines in the North Atlantic. On--note the day--Sept. 11, 1941, he said:
"Do not let us split hairs. Let us not say, `We will only defend ourselves if the torpedo succeeds in getting home, or if the crew and the passengers are drowned.' This is the time for prevention of attack.''
Many in the Bush administration believe that France is comprehensively complicating NATO actions for no better reason than that the United States favors the actions (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/gw20030307.shtml)</span></span>