{"id":13888,"date":"2026-03-01T15:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=13888"},"modified":"2026-03-01T15:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:06:21","slug":"justifiable-pre-emption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/justifiable-pre-emption\/","title":{"rendered":"Justifiable Pre-Emption?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edward Feser writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n

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. . . if Iran were actually in the process of preparing an attack against America, we could justifiably preempt it with an attack of our own.\u00a0\u00a0But we cannot justifiably attack any country simply because it might\u00a0at some point in the future decide to harm us.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Feser obviously has a point: the Iranian regime posed no imminent threat to the USA.\u00a0 An imminent threat is one that is about to be executed. At the present time, however the regime lacks both the nuclear warheads and the ICBMs needed to deliver death to the Great Satan.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, if we wait until the threat becomes imminent, it may be too late.\u00a0 For despite Trump’s joking about a third term, he will be out of office in three years.\u00a0 If his successor is a Democrat, then, given the fecklessness and incompetence of the current crop of electable Dems, we can reasonably expect to be ‘toast.’\u00a0 \u00a0Can you imagine AOC as Commander-in-Chief? If Trump’s successor is Vance or Rubio, a ‘toasty’ outcome\u00a0 is much less likely.\u00a0 But bear in mind that these gentlemen, as outstanding as they are, are professional politicians, unlike Trump. They need the job and cannot be expected to be as bold as he is.<\/p>\n

What say you, Vito?<\/p>\n

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Edward Feser writes, . . . if Iran were actually in the process of preparing an attack against America, we could justifiably preempt it with an attack of our own.\u00a0\u00a0But we cannot justifiably attack any country simply because it might\u00a0at some point in the future decide to harm us. Feser obviously has a point: the … Continue reading “Justifiable Pre-Emption?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-aporetics","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13889,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13888\/revisions\/13889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}