When the issue of launching a preemptive strike to thwart a missile attack came up in the Diet recently, opposition was muted.
The filing, in a nutshell, was a preemptive strike to try to prevent a potential legal strategy the union may use in a couple weeks.
And unfortunately, I and others who warned at the time, who said, let the inspectors finish their work, you know, do not wage a preemptive war, use diplomacy, were just talking to a brick wall.
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President Obama and his civilian and military subordinates have done just about everything short of a preemptive strike on the Jewish State to prevent the Israelis from trying to neutralize a looming existential threat to their nation.
An unidentified spokesman for Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry said the North will exercise its right for "a preemptive nuclear attack to destroy the strongholds of the aggressors" because Washington is pushing to start a nuclear war against the North.
At times like this, there's only one thing Microsoft can do: launch a preemptive vaporware response.
Indonesia's Foreign Minister Ali Alatas, elder statesman of ASEAN foreign ministers, issued a preemptive warning last week.
Clearly this is a preemptive step aimed to prevent liquidity problems becoming systemic as was threatened during 2008.
An area that deserves close study is the apparent attraction among Chinese strategists to IW as a preemptive weapon.
Rumors of a preemptive strike, either by the U.S. or Israel, are floating.
The Federal Election Commission could head this off with a preemptive policy statement.
Problem is Samsung is a major investor in Nanosys and has a preemptive call on some of its intellectual property.
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Solving that puzzle could yield treatments, but perfecting a potent vaccine would be a preemptive--and far more effective--form of attack.
Of course, Democratic visions of a preemptive "censure-plus" deal were always delusional, as were Republican dreams of an abrupt resignation.
Once such powers of IW are unleashed in a preemptive attack, the ability to control and calibrate forces becomes extremely difficult.
Conditions that called for a preemptive tightening in 1994 rapidly rising commodity prices and real short-term interest rates near zero are not present today.
If it did, the unauthorized use of Russian ballistic missiles could be prevented by some means other than a preemptive U.S. nuclear strike.
Abu Toameh was informed that the pro-Israel student group cancelled his talk as a preemptive move to avoid criticism from campus Arab groups.
Mulvenon argues that the Chinese obsession with IW as a preemptive weapon pose the most worrisome and unpredictable policy challenge for the United States.
However, if the administration does have knowledge of the timing of an Israeli attack, a preemptive release from the SPR could tip its hand.
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The President of the United States even has the authority to green-light preemptive strikes against a credible, impending cyber-attack, according to the NYT article.
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This means that Israel must launch a preemptive strike against Hizbullah's missiles and missile launchers, Syria's missiles, artillery and launchers, and Hamas's missiles and launchers.
He formed an in-house team to develop a preemptive strategy.
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Learning of Lenin's intentions, the Poles made a preemptive strike.
Well before its official document is due to be released, the military has launched a preemptive strike, as it were, to shape the subsequent discussion and generate maximum support.
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For example, if a preemptive attack on the German war machine had succeeded in preventing World War II, we would never know the enormity of the evil it prevented.
Ashkenazi has taken great pride in his consistent refusal to prepare the IDF to launch a preemptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities against the expressed wishes of Netanyahu and Barak.
As reported earlier this week in the New York Times, the IOM report was the subject of a preemptive attack by the medical device industry before the report was even released.
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Although the current deal has five years to run I would not be surprised if the networks negotiate a new deal early as a preemptive strike against losing their rights.
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