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U.S. to Add "Preemption" to Military Policy WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is drafting a formal military policy that supports preemptive attacks against terrorists and hostile states with weapons of mass destruction, the ***Washington Post ***said in Monday editions. The new strategic doctrine, which moves away from the Cold War era's policy of containment and deterrence, will be part of the administration's first "national security strategy" slated for release by this fall, the report said, quoting senior officials. The ***Post ***cited one official as saying that the document will for the first time add "preemption" and "defensive intervention" as formal options for striking at hostile nations or groups that appear determined to use weapons of mass destruction against the United States, Reuters reported. President George W. Bush spoke of where the United States was headed strategically in a commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point on June 1. Bush told the graduates that future U.S. military leaders must be ready to launch a preemptive strike in the war on terrorism, warning of an unprecedented threat of chemical, biological or nuclear attack from "terrorists and tyrants." Administration officials drafting the new policy said the United States has been forced to move beyond deterrence since Sept. 11 because of the threat posed by terrorist groups and hostile states supporting them, the ***Post ***reported. "The nature of the enemy has changed; the nature of the threat has changed, and so the response has to change," said a senior official, noting that terrorists "have no territory to defend. ... It's not clear how one would deter an attack like we experienced." Under the new doctrine, nuclear first strikes would be considered weapons of last resort, especially against biological weapons that can be best destroyed by sustained exposure to the high heat of a nuclear blast, Pentagon officials told the ***Post.*** ======================= U.S. Military Policy By Our Staff Writer The Thursday edition of the Washington Post quoted U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as saying that during his upcoming trip to India and Pakistan, he would warn the two countries of the disastrous consequences of a nuclear war. However, in an unprecedented statement on the U.S. nuclear attacks against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, Rumsfeld said, "Today, more than 55 years have passed since the first atomic bomb was exploded out of fury. This is the first time in history that a weapon with such great power has been available to governments, but which has not since been used." He said that nuclear weapons have not been used for the past 55 years because the leaders of countries possessing these weapons have been aware of the unpredictable and dangerous consequences of using them. As regards the present tension between India and Pakistan, this U.S. official noted, "The possibility of using nuclear weapons in a war between India and Pakistan not only increases the danger of hundreds of thousands of people on both sides being killed but also could lead to a cessation of the campaign against terrorism and the weakening of Pakistan's cooperation with the U.S. on the issue." Rumsfeld's remarks, in which he described the motive behind the U.S. nuclear attacks on Japan as fury and called on world leaders to act with wisdom in dealing with nuclear weapons, sound very surprising to political experts who are familiar with the warmongering and belligerent attitude of this U.S. official. In other words, such sweet-sounding remarks will neither help to change the hawkish image of Rumsfeld in the eyes of the world public nor alleviate the concern of the international community over the possibility of the United States using this weapon once again against other nations. The fact is that the new U.S. military policy, which authorizes the use of nuclear weapons even against nations that do not possess these weapons such as Iraq, Libya, Syria, North Korea and Iran is the brainchild of Rumsfeld and his colleagues at the Pentagon. In addition, the world knows very well that the reason for the U.S. atomic attacks against Japanese citizens during World War II was not mere fury, but that the attacks were a calculated move by U.S. leaders to demonstrate their strength as a superpower in the political arena of that time. However, the U.S. pretext was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. 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