National Security Strategy September 2002 - Revision history

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Idrees at 14:54, 6 July 2010

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Idrees at 14:53, 6 July 2010

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-The National Security Strategy of September 2002 was the formal promulgation of the Bush Doctrine which the president had earlier introduced in his 1 June 2002 speech at West Point. Many of the ideas propounded therein have their origins in the Defence Policy Guidance of 1992, and the [[Project for the New American Century]]'s 'Rebuilding America's Defences'.
+The National Security Strategy of September 2002 was the formal promulgation of the Bush Doctrine which the president had earlier introduced in his 1 June 2002 speech at West Point. Many of its ideas stem from the Defence Policy Guidance of 1992, and the [[Project for the New American Century]]'s 'Rebuilding America's Defences'.
 ==Key Tenets==
 The key tenets of NSS 2002 are unilateralism, preemption, missilde defence, and combating terrorism by focusing on states. All of them originated with [[neoconservatives]].

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 :‘The great struggles of the twentieth century between liberty and totalitarianism ended with a decisive victory for the forces of freedom—and a single sustainable model for national success: freedom, democracy, and free enterprise.’ ('''Origins:''' Francis Fukuyama's 'The End of History')
-:'And America will hold to account nations that are compromised by terror, including those who harbor terrorists' ('''Origis:''' This line was inserted into Bush's 11 September 2001 speech by David Frum at Richard Perle's suggestion)
+:'And America will hold to account nations that are compromised by terror, including those who harbor terrorists' ('''Origins:''' This line was inserted into Bush's 11 September 2001 speech by David Frum at Richard Perle's suggestion)
 :'We will build defenses against ballistic missiles and other means of delivery.' ('''Origins:''' Albert Wohlstetter)

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 In the document the word 'terrorist' appears 47 times, 'freedom' 46 times, 'liberty' 11 times, 'WMD' 9 times, and 'free market' 8 times.
 ===Historical Antecedents===
-The document is an inventory of neoconservative ideas propounded over the past two decades. Most of its key tenets have unmistakable antecedents in neoconservative writings.
+The document is an inventory of neoconservative ideas from the past two decades. Most of its key tenets have unmistakable antecedents in neoconservative writings.
 :‘The great struggles of the twentieth century between liberty and totalitarianism ended with a decisive victory for the forces of freedom—and a single sustainable model for national success: freedom, democracy, and free enterprise.’ ('''Origins:''' Francis Fukuyama's 'The End of History')

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 The National Security Strategy of September 2002 was the formal promulgation of the Bush Doctrine which the president had earlier introduced in his 1 June 2002 speech at West Point. Many of the ideas propounded therein have their origins in the Defence Policy Guidance of 1992, and the [[Project for the New American Century]]'s 'Rebuilding America's Defences'.
 ==Key Tenets==
-The key tenets of NSS 2002 are unilateralism, preemption, missilde defence, and combating terrorism by focusing on states. All of them originted with [[neoconservatives]].
+The key tenets of NSS 2002 are unilateralism, preemption, missilde defence, and combating terrorism by focusing on states. All of them originated with [[neoconservatives]].
 ===Preemption===
 In his January 29, 2002 State of the Union address, George W. Bush had first introduced the doctrine of preemption: 'I will not wait on events as dangers gather. I will not stand by as peril draws closer.'<ref>George W. Bush, [http://stateoftheunionaddress.org/2002-george-w-bush State of the Union Address], The White House, 29 January 2002</ref> He reiterated the point in his 1 June speech at West Point, in which he stressed that 'new threats also require new thinking.’ He then added an oblique call for preemption: ‘If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long.’<ref name="wp">George W. Bush, [http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/06/print/20020601-3.html President Bush Delivers Graduation Speech at West Point], The White House, 1 June 2002</ref> NSS 2002 made preemption official US policy.

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 ==Resources==
 *[http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/nsc/nss/2002/ The National Security Strategy], The White House, September 2002
 [[category:Iraq War 2003]]