Arlen Specter: “without going through the entire litany, I agree that those are all illustrations of anticipatory self-defense. The…”

“without going through the entire litany, I agree that those are all illustrations of anticipatory self-defense. The Afghanistan missile attack on August 20 of 1998 was in response to al-Qaida because of the destruction of our embassies in Africa at about that time. I don't think you could call the Grenada incident a matter of anticipatory self-defense. I don't think you can call it self-defense at all. I think what the Senator from Virginia referred to is not a case of anticipatory self-defense--action by the United States, but not anticipatory self-defense. The quarantine of Cuba, as I said before, certainly does qualify, but under very different circumstances. But I thank my colleague from Virginia. During the course of the coming days, I think we are going to have very extended discussions on these issues as we debate this resolution.”