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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.
It was far from blind; and there is good reason to credit President Clinton's claim that this was a pre-emptive assault on operational terrorist bases preparing to carry out further attacks on American targets which would have cost, as they did in Nairobi, the lives of hundreds of non-Americans as well."
If you believe that the trust fund exists, then the transaction amounts to a $1 increase in both the trust fund and the national debt--sort of a pre-emptive bailout.
In his remarks to the Senate, Greenspan spoke of the benefits of "pre-emptive" action, i.e., moving against inflation before it actually develops.
He is also largely responsible for moving the Clinton campaign beyond mere "rapid response" to pre-emptive strikes--engineering, for instance, Clinton's endorsement by the Fraternal Order of Police on the day Bob Dole was set to launch a major attack on the president's crime record.