For instance, Israel might be deterred from undertaking necessary preemptive action (such as the Osiraq raid).

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My attitude is, you take preemptive action in order to protect the American people, that you act in order to make this country secure.

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Had the government taken preemptive action with regard to mortgage lending, the real estate bubble never would have inflated to the degree that it has.

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More insidious dangers lurk and call for preemptive action, too.

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You take preemptive action if you pass a global test?

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Self-defense is a valid basis for preemptive action.

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One of the great difficulties of evaluating the comparative advantages and disadvantages of deterrence versus preemption is that once we have taken preemptive action, it is almost never possible to know whether deterrence would have worked as well or better.

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Does the Iraq experience make it more likely or less likely that you would take the United States into another preemptive military action?

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Everyone recognised there might have to be exceptions to this rule, but the Charter specifically does not authorize preemptive nor preventative action(i.e. getting in first) on the basis of a perceived future threat.

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