Timeline for Why is there a [sic] in this passage?
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| Oct 17, 2012 at 21:47 | comment | added | Gnawme | @SF. My point (and Regas's) precisely. | |
| Oct 17, 2012 at 11:08 | comment | added | SF. | Usually, Preemptive attack means one that is to occur before the enemy strikes first. What was, in all likehood, the chance that Iraq would start a war against the USA? What event was being preempted by this attack? | |
| Sep 23, 2012 at 2:40 | comment | added | Gnawme | Hmm. It would be puzzling to see [sic] used to indicate that the editor thought preemptive to be in error, given that both Webster's and the Chicago Manual advocate the closed compound. | |
| Sep 22, 2012 at 23:30 | comment | added | I. J. Kennedy | I wondered if the authors might be making an editorial comment, but they are all professional scholars, and the book is a high school history text, so it seemed unlikely. | |
| Sep 22, 2012 at 22:13 | history | answered | Gnawme | CC BY-SA 3.0 |