Credit: Asia Times on Line:
Dick Cheney’s premise that even a 1% chance of an attack on the US must be dealt with as if it were a certainty has been rendered obsolete. Now, says the current occupant of the White House, no direct threat to the US needs to exist to justify preemptive war – the prerogative for which lies not with Congress but with “the presidential ‘I'”.
– Tom Engelhard