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FOREIGN DESK
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September 20, 2002, Friday
THREATS AND RESPONSES: SECURITY; Bush to Outline Doctrine of Striking Foes First
By DAVID E. SANGER
(NYT)
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Late Edition - Final
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Correction Appended
ABSTRACT
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Bush administration will publish its first comprehensive rationale for shifting American military strategy toward pre-emptive action against hostile states and terrorist groups developing weapons of mass destruction; document will state, for first time, that US will never allow its military supremacy to be challenged as it was during cold war; document, one that every president is required to submit to Congress, is this administration's first comprehensive explanation of its foreign policy, from defense strategy to global warming; it sketches out far more muscular and sometimes aggressive approach to national security than any since Reagan era; it includes discounting of most nonproliferation treaties in favor of doctrine of 'counterproliferation'; calls strategies of containment and deterrence--staples of American policy since 1940's--all but dead; says America is threatened less by conquering states than by failing ones; striking element of new strategy document is its insistence that president will not allow any foreign power to catch up with huge lead US has opened since fall of Soviet Union; photo; chart comparing Pres Bush's new national security strategy with Pres Clinton's in some key areas (L)
Correction: September 21, 2002, Saturday
Because of an editing error, a front-page article yesterday about the Bush administration's adoption of a doctrine of pre-emptive action against hostile countries placed a passage in quotation marks erroneously in a description of the 33-page document prepared for Congress. The comment -- that the president has no intention of allowing any foreign power to catch up with the huge lead the United States has opened since the fall of the Soviet Union more than a decade ago -- was the writer's summation of interviews with senior administration officials.
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