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steve kJulie - You are not remembering history. We (Kennedy) DID threaten to attack Cuba if the Soviet Union did not remove their missles. If they didn't remove the missles, we would have attacked. Remember also that for months we clearly warned Sadaam Hussein that we were going to attack - the only simple thing he had to do was to allow the inspectors to come in again.
And YES - that is the new doctrine of the United States - if we strongly feel that our country is threatened from an impending attack, then we are going to attack first. You should know that Israel has avoided another attack from an Arab country for over 30 years using the same doctrine. Can you imagine if Israel hadn't bombed that Iraq nuclear facility back in the 80s - I don't even want to think about the future horror that would have happened if Israel hadn't struck first.