Alan Dershowitz discusses the balance between costs and benefits that he believes the United States must strive for and how it relates to the wartime strategies of prevention and preemption.
This is an audio only event hosted by the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia.
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Bio
Buntzie Churchill
President of the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia.
Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He graduated from Brooklyn College and Yale Law School, then joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25. He is known for defending such high profile clients as Anatoly Sharansky, Claus von Blow, O.J. Simpson, Michael Milken and Mike Tyson. Dershowitz is also the author of 20 works of fiction and non-fiction, including 6 bestsellers.
Alan H. Luxenberg
Vice President of the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
And Yet Thomas Jefferson had 6 children from Sally Hemmings a Negro, Thomas`s first marriage was to his first cousin. Those in power were Masons and that the constitution has a definite Masonic slant and a preventative method against the Pope and Vatican. Most Writers down play the Masonic connection that survived the test of Time. Israel `s lack of using the bomb in past wars was Hiroshima. Nuking Tehran is also an option! Preemption is for Israel The only Option, Time has run Out. Thank you Allan and Foratv.com yet the 3rd world war, the Supreme leader, A life here after negates the present, paradise or soldiers for Christ, The road has been paved, with greed we bleed!.
While the concept of preemptive war (attacking a nation that poses an imminent threat) has precendents under international law, I think the Bush Administration's notion of preventive war (attacking a nation that has the potential to pose a future threat) crosses the line into what is illegal and illegitimate.