...And all nations should know: America will do what is necessary to ensure our nation's security. We'll be deliberate, yet time is not on our side. I will...dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons, (www.whitehouse .gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020129-ll.html) By not allowing 'the...

...blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic We'll be deliberate, yet time is not on our side. I will...dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.26 The "axis of evil" reference conjured up popular memories of the aggressive...

...know: America E3 will do what is necessary to ensure our nation's security. We'll be deliberate, 5 yet time is not on our side. I will not wait on events,...dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.39 While threatening preemptive strikes against regimes seeking weapons of mass...

...expect to engage in an anticipatory attack. In the 2002 State of the Union address, President Bush said, I will not wait on events, while dangers gather. I...dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.2 Speaking to the graduating class at West Point the following summer, the President...

...terrorists. We, then, must act as if it's a certainty. "We'll be deliberate, yet time is not on our side. ... I will not stand by, as peril draws closer and closer....dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons." And then the President offered something beyond Cheney's portfolio, something...

...programs which claimed that it did 86 Bush stated that "I will not wait on events, while dangers gather. 1 will not stand by, as peril draws closer and closer....dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons;" George W. Bush, "The President's State of the Union Address," (29 January 2002),...

...Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction while starving its citizens... The United States of America will not permit the world's...dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.72 Given this rhetoric so conspicuous on the possibility of a resort to preventive...

...incendiary language entailed a palpable threat. The United States of America, Bush proclaimed, "would not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most dangerous weapons." In the post-September 1 1 and post-Afghanistan atmosphere, this was not an idle threat. Iran was once...

...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 world's most destructive weapons"25 without backing up the threat. Which is why the special operations AC- 130 Spectre...

...continued, "I will not wait on events ... as peril draws closer and closer. The United States . . . will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons."1 The Bush doctrine was more fully elaborated during a subsequent speech at West...