Psst...the Cold War ended 10 years ago

June 6, 2002

NATO Must Attack Terrorists Before They Hit, Rumsfeld Says

As NATO seeks to maintain relevance as a military alliance, it must take the war on terrorism to the terrorists by pre-emptive attacks on shadowy networks or hostile states armed with biological, chemical or nuclear weapons, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today.

Originally founded as a defensive alliance against the Soviet Union, for the last ten years NATO has been looking for something to defend against. Why not terrorism?