Quote Originally Posted by ShunNakamura
PS, Aquinas in that same article says that a war can't be made in pre-emption. and that is correct, or assumptions can be wrong. and a war kills people.. do we want to kill people on an assumption?
Nope. I entirely agree. It's why this war was so damned worthless. Not that action was necessary - striking first is not always the worst case - but rather had they even stated that they were going to attack America, that would have been enough. "Pre-emptive attacks" go against the principles of rational self-interest that America was founded on (and which has thus been thrown out the window).