When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

Published March 1, 2002 in The Washington Post under the title "The Axis of Petulance", as excerpted in The Iraq Papers (2010), John Ehrenburg, Oxford University Press, Chapter 2 : Organizing For Preemptive War, Document 2.3 ; ISBN 0195398580 | Krauthammer's syndicated column is frequently published, and archived, under different column titles and publication dates by various publications and online content providers. -->