 | Len Bracken - History - 2002 - 302 pages
...the attacks were coming and withheld information. June 1, 2002—In a West Point speech Bush states: "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...and confront the worst threats before they emerge." June 3, 2002—Federal officials say concerns that racial profiling hindered investigations into Middle... | |
 | Jeffrey T. Bergner - Political Science - 2003 - 236 pages
...Here is how President Bush put it at West Point: "The war on terror will not be won on the defensive. We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...safety is the path of action. And this nation will act." Our security requires such preemptive action. How dreadful it would be if America were dealt... | |
 | Nancy Snow - Social Science - 2003 - 180 pages
...or secretly provide them to terrorist allies... the war on terror will not be won on the defensive. We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...safety is the path of action. And this nation will act. 63 The phrase, "war on terror," Nicholas Lemann of The New Yorker wrote, "has entered the language... | |
 | Ivo H. Daalder, James M. Lindsay - Political Science - 2003 - 286 pages
...clear priorities, "the war on terror will not be won on the defensive." Instead, Bush proclaimed that "we must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...safety is the path of action. And this nation will act." Ultimately, Bush concluded, the nation's "security will require all Americans to be forward-looking... | |
 | Clyde V Prestowitz - History - 2008 - 356 pages
...cases, "new threats also require new thinking." He continued that "we must take the battle to the enemy, and confront the worst threats before they emerge....entered, the only path to safety is the path of action." 7 The first action came in less than two weeks, when the United States formally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 2003 - 1246 pages
...duty to protect the American people from harm. As I said to the US Military Academy class of 2002, "In the world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this Nation will act." vi Preface This book contains the papers and speeches of the 43d President of the United States... | |
 | Seyom Brown - Political Science - 2004 - 220 pages
...and they're essential priorities for America. Yet the war on terror will nor be won on the defensive. We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...and confront the worst threats before they emerge. . . . Our security will require transforming the military you will lead— a military that must be... | |
 | Peter H. Smith, 堀坂浩太郎, Shōji Nishijima - Business & Economics - 2003 - 420 pages
...for threats to fully materialize," he said to the uniformed cadets, "we will have waited too long. We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...and confront the worst threats before they emerge." A corollary of this doctrine was, of course, the need for nearly flawless gathering and analysis of... | |
 | Bruce D. Berkowitz - Information warfare - 2003 - 274 pages
...was even more aggressive. The President said, "The war on terror will not be won on the defensive. We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...and confront the worst threats before they emerge." Continuing, he said, "Our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to... | |
 | Greg Ward - History - 2004 - 436 pages
...hoping for the best ... If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long . . . We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...and confront the worst threats before they emerge . . . our security will require all Americans ... to be ready for preemptive action when necessary... | |
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We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge. In the world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this nation will act. 
