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…Фактически, если «ни одна нация мира не является освобожденной» без того, чтобы быть приверженной «подлинным и неизменным» принципам свободы и справедливости, американской внешней политике необходимо приказать войти в состояние войны с тиранией вообще, с тираниями в целом»… Цель — «достичь замены режима», правда, «пока что используя скорее дипломатические и политические, чем военные, средства».



(«The president did not shy away from drawing the implications. He would not „wait on events, while dangers gather.“ He would not „stand by, as peril draws closer and closer.“ And then, in the most significant sentence spoken by an American president in almost 20 years: „The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons“.

It's worth noting that the word «terrorism» entirely disappeared from this, the climactic paragraph of the speech. Of course, it's true that the dangerous regimes that are developing weapons of mass destruction also support terrorism, so a nexus of terror and weapons of mass destruction exists. Still, this second aspect of the war on terror goes beyond terror. It is a war against dangerous tyrannies seeking weapons of mass destruction. And it will be a preemptive and unilateral war, if necessary.

In fact, since «no nation is exempt» from the «true and unchanging» principles of liberty and justice, American foreign policy can be said to be at war with tyranny in general — though not as urgently as we are at war with dangerously hostile tyrannies, and with a greater chance of using diplomatic and political rather than military means to achieve regime change».



Kristol William. Taking the War Beyond Terrorism // The Washington Post. January 31. 2002).



Замечательно, что Уильям Кристол, говоря, что «ни одна нация мира не является освобожденной», употребляет глагол «exempt» — «освобождать от налога или иной государственной обязанности».