gov. question?

Question

Which is the better policy for the United States: containment or preemption? Why?

Answer 1

The pre-emption doctrine was drawn up by defense industry magnates and/or Israeli-American dual citizens. They know (or care) very little about the intentions of our Founders. Unfortunately, it's people like this who make our foreign policy. Our elected (so-called) leaders just sign on the dotted line.

The Stark Contrast:

"The question, then is not whether the US should intervene everywhere or nowhere. The decision Americans need to make is whether the US should generally lean forward, as it were, or whethere it should adopt a posture of relative passivity. A strategy aimed at preserving American hegemony should embrace the former stance, being more rather than less inclined to weigh in when crises erupt, and preferably before they erupt. This is the standard of a global superpower that intends to shape the international environment to its own advantage."
-From "The Present Danger" by dual nationals Robert Kagan and William Kristol (spring 2000)

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with no one."
-Thomas Jefferson, American Patriot

With the resignation of Pentagon adviser Richard Perle a few days ago, the Bush administration lost one of its most visible, most vocal spokesmen not only for the war in Iraq, but for similar preemptive actions elsewhere in the world. ...
But Perle is embroiled in questions about his business dealings while acting as adviser to Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and has resigned his chairmanship of the Pentagon's influential Defense Policy Board.

"No wonder there are accusations of double standards."

Some neocons who helped create the Project For the New American Century in 1997 were, a year earlier, advocating similar policies for incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Perle was then part of a small group that authored a report called "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm." The realm, in this case, was Israel.
-St. Petersburg Times
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To those who say, "well, the world is a different now and a more dangerous place."

I say, "are you American or a citizen of another country? And do you own stock in multinational corporations which recieve massive defense contracts?"