President Bush is under compulsion to explain what is so different this time around. After the United Nations rearranged a new inspection rule for Iraq, he declared that if Iraq fails to fully comply, the United States and other nations would disarm Saddam Hussein by power. Bush advocates his new first-strike policy as an answer to the warning that some terrorists plan to attack with weapons of mass destruction. In this regard, nevertheless, Bush's policy is neither controversial nor novel. When opposing terrorists who cannot be precluded or appeased, and who seek to impose death and destruction, there is no course to preemption.