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People and nations who understand that we can't wait for terrorists to strike again - we must strike them first.
The Just War principles point nations to the circumstances in which armed conflict can be morally justifiable.
Poseur multilateralists prefer a consensual foreign policy that looks good to one that does any good.
Chirac’s France, Schroeder’s Germany, Heseltinia and Pattendom are all members of the economically and globally weak Old Europe.
Pre-emption is the alternative to suicide for democracies threatened by terrorist-supporting regimes with access to technologies of mass destruction.
The proper moniker for the world’s most retrograde leaders.
Changing totalitarian regimes into democracies is likely to build peace between nations.
Rogue states provide sanctuary, financing or weaponry to terrorist networks.
Increasingly well-organised American conservatives are driving US policy on terror, the environment and values issues.
The war on terror is most properly thought of as a race against terrorists determined to find and deploy weapons of terrible destruction against civilisation.
The English-speaking nations who share a system of law, a commitment to free market economics and a proactive approach to the war on terror.
Old European and 'realpolitik' sophisticates prefer cleverness to wisdom and nuance to conviction.
Dangerous forces are often served by unwitting allies. The peace-at-any-price brigade are the useful idiots of today's terrorists.