Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.
Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
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Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
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