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The "pre-emptive rave" to which I referred was by columnist Frank Rich; it came more than a week before the film opened.
The NYT reports that in the hours just prior to conducting the tests, Pakistan summoned India's diplomatic envoy and accused India of planning a pre-emptive military strike on Pakistan's atomic testing center.
Perhaps that's why he has always seemed to want to preclude critical judgment with pre-emptive strikes within his prose, anticipating our responses and silencing us.
The WP reports that a spokesman for House Ways and Means Chairman Bill Archer complained about Clinton's "pre-emptive strike against tax relief."
However, he failed to address a gaping hole in the Republicans' tax cut plans that neither Democrats nor the media had pointed out: Namely, that a tax cut of the size proposed might stimulate the economy to the point that the Fed would feel compelled to raise interest rates in a pre-emptive strike against inflation.