Summary
So the doctrine of preemption has its uses, after all. In a world of conflicting intelligence, uncertain consequences, and potential foreign opposition, it is still sometimes necessary for America to attack an adversary before it attacks us.
That, reduced to its essence, is the main conclusion of yesterday's 567-page report from the 9/11 Commission. The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks may have been a shock, it says, but they never should have come as a surprise. Our government - and the entire political class - knew enough to act against al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, but it did not because of "failures of imagination, policy, capability, and management." Though the bipartisan report can't quite bring itself to use the words, it would seem that the Bush anti-terror doctrine lives.See the full content of this document
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Editorials On 9/11 Report
- The Wall Street Journal
****If ever there were a "who moved my cheese" moment for the nation's intelligence community, it's now.The intelligence community must break...See the full content of this document
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