war is peace.

excerpted from the forward of the recently-released "National Defense Strategy of The United States of America":

The Department of Defense is implementing the President's commitment to the forward defense of freedom as articulated in the National Security Strategy.

doesn't the phrase "forward defense" sound eerily like some orwellian doublespeak for "preemptive?"

read this creepy, creepy document: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/dod/nds-usa_mar2005.htm