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Stephen Schneider, climatologist at Stanford University

James Connaughton, director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality

Henry Jacoby, economist at MIT.

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Relations between India and Pakistan have always been on shaky ground. Yet the latest confrontation, with the mobilization of soldiers and all the talk of nuclear war, has been rattling their border like the moments before an earthquake. After recent meetings with Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and the promise of a visit later this week by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the tremors between Delhi and Islamabad have settled for the time being. But most will tell you that the current quiet is temporary, and unless some serious progress is made in smoothing relations and finding solutions to the quarrel over Kashmir, the heavy guns will be booming once again. Finding a way for peace.

Guests:

Ambassador Nicholas Platt, former Ambassador to Pakistan, currently President of the Asia Society

Sumantra Bose, Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics

Ahmed Faruqui, fellow at the American Institute of International Studies, weekly columnist for the Daily Times in Lahore

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During the commencement address at the West Point Military Academy this past weekend, President Bush broke new ground in describing how the United States needs to carry out its war on terrorism.

“If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long,” Bush said.

“In the world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action… our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for preemptive action when necessary to defend our liberty and to defend our lives.”

The concept of pre-emptive strikes is a revolutionary in U.S. military strategy. It is the latest corollary to the Bush Doctrine, which was founded the week of September 11th when the President said, “we will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.”

This hour, Michael Walzer, one of the nation’s leading thinkers on the morality of war, discusses the latest addition to the Bush Doctrine. What does it mean when the U.S. begins to use pre-emptive strikes?

Guests:

Michael Walzer, professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, author of “Just and Unjust Wars”