‘America falls victim to its own pre-emptive doctrine’

This is apropos many letters to the Editor ‘America falls victim to its own pre-emptive doctrine’ from this writer carried by the newspaper in recent days.

Humanity cannot afford another Iraq, another Libya, another Syria—or a Venezuelan and Colombian conflict born from speculative intelligence and unilateral force. Nor can the United States afford more tragedies like the killing of its own National Guard soldier at the hands of a deeply wounded man shaped by a fractured national psyche.

Concluding, pre-emptive doctrine does not provide safety. It creates destruction, resentment, and internal instability. Only when nations reject the impulse to strike first and invest instead in long-term social transformation—at home and abroad—will the world begin to heal from the damage this doctrine has unleashed.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2026