humanities.philosophy.objectivism

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:45:31 -0700, Potroast
wrote:

> You also skirted around my other point about Bush. Mark himself said
>Bush didn't make this distinction. Why didn't he then? Surely it would
>have been to his advantage to not associate himself with
>"preventative" wars right?

I think you misunderstood. Bush failed to make the distinction in the
sense that he wanted to *engage* in preventive war but he wanted to
*call it* preemptive war. He did not make the distinction between
preventive war and preemptive war, because by calling his action
preemptive, he gained the moral legitimacy that preemption carries.

You, on the other hand, don't want to make the distinction because you
want to tag preemption with the moral prohibition associated with
preventive war.