WASHINGTON – President Bush plans to issue a new national security strategy today reaffirming his doctrine of pre-emptive war against terrorists and hostile states with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, despite the troubled experience in Iraq.
The document on U.S. strategic priorities is required by law every four years.
On everything from genocide to human trafficking to AIDS, the strategy describes itself as “idealistic about goals and realistic about means.”
The strategy expands on the original security framework developed by the Bush administration in September 2002, and shifted U.S. foreign policy away from decades of deterrence and containment toward a more aggressive stance of attacking enemies before they attack the United States.
In his revised version, Bush offers no second thoughts about the preemption policy, saying it “remains the same” and defending it as necessary.
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