Keeper File

摘要

Today I believe there are basically three different cases in which we may use our armed forces.... The first category is when our vital national interests are threatened. Our second category is when important, but not vital, national interests are threatened. The third category is when a situation causes us deep humanitarian concern.... A threat falls into this first category of vital interest if it threatens the survival of the United States or key allies, if it threatens our critical economic interests, or if it poses a danger of a future nuclear threat.... Our confrontations with Iraq these past few years involved our vital national interests. Indeed, they involved all three of the threats which I mentioned. They were a threat to key allies; they were a threat to critical economic interests; and a future nuclear danger.