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Nor do we feel the urgency of taking pre-emptive action."
When it comes to accountability, the establishment media have the biggest glass jaw in the world, and its pre-emptive atomic carpet bombing of Brill's Content only proves it.
Instead, the U.S. should use its pinpoint conventional missiles to make both pre-emptive and retaliatory strikes against nuclear terrorists and rogue states.
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.
Would I welcome The Truman Show for what it is--a sharp-witted, visually layered, gorgeously designed, meticulously directed piece of formula pablum--if I hadn't been bludgeoned by pre-emptive raves in Esquire , Time , Entertainment Weekly , and the New York Times that proclaim it some sort of subversive postmodern masterwork?