"The Committee on the Present Danger -- an off-and-on organization of anti-Soviet policymakers and strategists founded in the early 1950s and revitalized in 1976 -- is re-forming for a third incarnation. This time, the main target is terrorism, not Moscow-based communism.

"The bipartisan group, co-chaired by Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.), held a mid-June conference on the war in Iraq, which drew little attention beyond The Hill newspaper. Among the group's tenets is support for preemptive strikes against nations with ties to terrorist organizations.