...what is necessary to ensure our Nation's security. We will be deliberate. Yet time is not on our side. I will not wait on events while dangers gather. I will not stand by as peril grows closer and closer." Now, what does this mean? How about North Korea? The President included North...

...what is necessary to ensure our nation's security. We'll be deliberate, yet time is not on our side. I will not wait on events, while dangers gather I...as peril draws closer and closer. The United States ol America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most...

...Iraq, and North Korea an "axis of evil." He warned, "I will not wait on events, while danger gathers. I will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer. The United States of America will not permit the worlds most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the worlds most destructive weapons." The next day,...

...self-defense, but also to prevent threats to international peace and security from being realized—he warned: "I will not wait on events, while dangers gather....will not stand by, as peril draws closer and closer." 46 Friends and allies of the United States objected that, in the name of antiterrorism, the Bush administration...

...compromise without you, yourself, being implicated in the very evil you ostensibly oppose. You cannot say, "America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the worlds most destructive weapons" (as cited in Umansky, 2002) without backing up the threat — which...

...machinery of the state. And as I stated before the American Congress just a few weeks ago, we must not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most dangerous weapons. I speak for these convictions even as we hope for dialog with the North. America...

...what is necessary to ensure our nation's security. We will be deliberate, yet time is not on our side. I will not wait on events, while dangers gather. I...dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most dangerous weapons. The language implied a strategic doctrine of preventive war that in fact would emerge...

...America afraid and vigilant was a central theme in Bush's State of the Union Message in January 2002: I will not wait on events, while dangers gather. I...will not stand by, as peril draws closer and closer ... Our war on terror is well begun, but it is only begun. This campaign may not be finished on our...

...what is necessary to ensure our nation's security. We'll be deliberate. Yet time is not on our side. I will not wait on events while dangers gather. I...will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer.' First, Libya. The United States also knows that Syria has long had a chemical warfare program. It has...

...In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic. Bush concluded by promising, "I will not wait on events, while dangers gather....will not stand by, as peril draws closer and closer." In June 2OO2, in a commencement address to West Point cadets, he expanded on this theme. The war on...