Thursday, March 7, 2013

Daniel Henninger critiques preventive strike?

Not in so many words.  So, I wrote a letter to help him understand.

To the Editor; 

I applaud Daniel Henninger for his line, "If I'm a 40-year old southerner, born in 1973 and raising a family in one of these states, this view by four justices on the Supreme Court in 2013 of what I might do is insulting and demeaning" (Is the South still racist? March 7, 2013).

By rebuking the argument that we must act in advance of potential harms, no matter how seemingly reasonable, he eviscerates a host of current policies, especially that of preemptive military strike.  I look forward to his advocacy of rigorous, sustained and multilateral engaged diplomacy as the foreign policy ideal.

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