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From: Mark Sieving
Date: Friday, March 14, 2008 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: Six year Gallop poll on Muslim views of the west - in other news Peikoff/Brooke are FOS
From: Mark Sieving
Date: Friday, March 14, 2008 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: Six year Gallop poll on Muslim views of the west - in other news Peikoff/Brooke are FOS
On Mar 14, 1:17 pm, Potroast
>
> The Germans spoke German. The Japanese spoke Japanese. It is highly
> improbable they distinguished between a "preventative" and
> "preemptive" attack in English.
No, but they could and did distinguish betweeen the concepts in German
and Japanese.
> I accept you
> personally may distinguish between preemptive and preventative
> definitions but as far as I know prior to the Bush Doctrine there was
> very little legal weight behind such minor language distinctions.
The distinction goes back at leat to the 19th century.
