humanities.philosophy.objectivism

On Mar 14, 1:32 pm, Potroast wrote:
>
> Just to rephrase to confirm....you are saying Bush doesn't make the
> distinction between the terms "preemptive" and "preventative" but you
> personally do right?

Correct, though the distinction is not a personal idiosyncracy. The
distinction has been made in most discussions of the law of war for a
long time.

>  OK. I can accept that.  Perhaps I am confusing
> mainstream American media's repetitive use of the word "preemption"
> and your further argument as meaning Bush also personally supported
> that distinction.

As I noted, a pet peeve of mine is that the discussions of Bush's
policy, including most of mainstream media, *confuse* the terms
"preemptive" and "preventive". They don't *distinquish* between these
terms.