With all the talk of pre-emptive strikes, people aren't discussion one thing:
Why can't other states take the same action agains the US. To give an
example, I propose the following hypothetical situation
Let's assume Jenna Bush is in Germany. Being the daughter of the most
powerful man in the world, she ignores the laws about drink-driver, and takes
a cruise down some Autobahn afet getting a little tipsy.
During the drive, she crashes into another car, and causes the driver and his
family (his wife and 2 toddlers) to die, yet Jenna survives with mild
injuries. She is arrested for dangerous driving and charged with
manslaughter. Bush being bush puts economiv pressuse of Germany to ry and get
his daughter released, but this doesn't work. Every politician loves a making
examples of gamous people, after all.
Fearing military action, Germany employs a policy of pre-emptive
self-defence, sees a US carrier in the Mediteranian (keeping an eye on
Isreal) and launches a strike against it. sinking it along with everyone
onboard. No survivors.
Pre-emptive strikes can be used to justify any military action against any
threat, real or imaginary.
-- === Mark 'Nurgle' Collins http://www.thisisnurgle.org.uk Stupid IRC quote of the <variable time period>: <phoenix> insider, you'll have to excuse nurgle, he's the epitamy of evil
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