”No Return to October 6th Reality says IDF spokesman Defrin
“IDF spokesperson Efi Defrin said Israel’s military strategy has fundamentally changed following the lessons of the current war. Defrin stated that protecting Israeli civilians can no longer mean waiting for threats to materialize, arguing that a ceasefire must not result in a return to the security conditions that existed before the conflict. He said the IDF now operates proactively, targeting threats before they develop into attacks and preventing adversaries from rebuilding their capabilities. According to Defrin, Israeli forces will remain positioned between hostile groups and Israeli communities until security threats are fully removed.”
Bush said the same thing in 2002 and that’s why I voted for
him. It’s also in the Babylonian Talmud: “If somebody is coming to kill you, get up early and kill him first.” A politically liberal ultra-Orthodox Jew at the last seder I attended years ago and who had screamed at me, “Jews don’t kill” when I quipped, “There’s two kinds of antisemites, the good ones and the ones who are still breathing” told me that was impractical. Uh huh.
President George W. Bush articulated the “waiting for threats to fully materialize” concept during his West Point Graduation Speech delivered at the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY, on June 1, 2002.The Key Excerpt In the speech, which officially outlined the administration’s preemptive foreign policy (the “Bush Doctrine”), he declared:”If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long. Homeland defense and missile defense are part of stronger security, and we must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge.”
Historical Context & SignificancePolicy Shift: The address marked a departure from Cold War-era strategies of deterrence and containment. Bush argued that conventional deterrence “means nothing against shadowy terrorist networks” and that preemptive military strikes were now necessary to ensure American safety.Road to War: This doctrine served as the primary rationale for military action in Iraq, shifting the strategic focus from merely reacting to attacks toward acting against looming or suspected dangers.Related Addresses: This rhetoric was closely tied to his earlier 2002 State of the Union Address (where he identified the “Axis of Evil”) and later National Security Strategy, both of which emphasized taking preemptive action against rogue states and terror networks.
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