"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
--Voltaire
The Bush Doctrine, offered by neo-conservatives in the White House as a unique response to a world changed by Sept. 11, is anything but new. Much of the ideology behind current American foreign policy parallels a belief system that took root in Prussia under Frederick the Great and bore poisonous fruit in the Nazi era. The notion that preemptive war is a legitimate tool of foreign policy, ...