Iraq should teach Bush preemptive war's limits

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/7735177.htm

As President Bush prepares to deliver his third State of the Union address, it's a good time to reevaluate his most controversial policy - the doctrine of making preventive war.

The so-called Bush Doctrine was spelled out in the September 2002 National Security Strategy - in a post-9/11 age of terrorists who might get nukes from rogue states. Its goal was to preempt an adversary who might threaten us in the future. It called for "anticipatory action" against states we considered dangerous, even before they showed any signs of attacking us.

Iraq, of course, was the test case. Many assumed that the other countries on the President's "axis of evil," Iran and North Korea, and maybe Syria or Libya, were next in line for forcible regime change. That gave our allies the willies.

But the Bush Doctrine turned out to be much fuzzier than it originally seemed. At first glance, the Iraq war seems to justify the doctrine's faith in military preemption. But in fact, the Iraq venture shows we can't just run around ousting despots by military means.

willlNEVER learn ANYTHING from his past mistakes. he just keeps making them again and again.
that is what STOOPID people do.

I think she would love to launch into ChimpCo much more viciously but the Inquirer won't have that, not yet at least. When the Neo-Reich begins to seriously spiral in, maybe will start seeing more sincere opinions from Inquirer staff.

...thank God. Otherwise, we'd be on another rampage in Iran, Syria or Iraq.

The entire attention attention of the regime now is devoted to keeping its huge military blunder and the thousands of casualties off of page 1.

On edit meant to say Korea not Iraq.