Pre-emptive retaliation preserves their rank.
Pre-emptive strikes are another option, but are not optimal.
"Pre-emptive justice" is a wonderfully Orwellian oxymoron.
The High Court judges dismissed their case and in effect endorsed police tactics of pre-emptive arrests - a ruling which strengthens of the hand of the police if they do start arresting campaigners they say are about to disrupt the Olympics.
"I'm here to say, 'You have a choice.' " The emerging question is to what extent Mr. Paul's more dovish stances — like ruling out pre-emptive strikes against Iran — are so far out of the Republican orthodoxy that they will limit his support in many places, or, as many in the party argue, make him unelectable in important early-nominating states like South Carolina and Florida.
Royal wedding protesters have lost their high court claim that they were the victims of unlawful searches and arrests in a ruling that endorses the pre-emptive arrest police tactic just before the Olympics.
Japan's chief financial regulator, Heizo Takenaka, said that the agency he heads would study the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's plan for pre-emptive action to help floundering banks.
Critics claim any such ruling will lead to an explosion of controversial pre-emptive legal injunctions and have a "chilling" effect on freedom of expression.
By contrast, in a ruling early this month, the court found no such pre-emptive language in the statutes governing drug regulation.
Also Wednesday, the North's main ruling-party newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, said it planned "substantial military actions," including "pre-emptive nuclear strikes" against the United States and South Korea.
Mr. Blau's article suggested that Mr. Malaisha's killing contravened an Israeli Supreme Court ruling from December 2006 that strictly limited the circumstances in which the military can to carry out pre-emptive strikes.
