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Don't just trust--deter and defend. (Scan).(treaty on biological weapons)(Brief Article)
Foreign policy dreamers have always insisted the U.S. should rely on treaties to keep itself safe in a dangerous world. Liberal-minded idealists have promoted a whole parade of paper agreements as guarantors of our national security: nuclear disarmament treaties, anti-landmine treaties, treaties promising not to use chemical weapons, the ABM Treaty (which is said to be worth sacrificing a national missile defense for), and so forth.
What we've recently learned about one of the most prominent anti-war treaties of the last generation should therefore be sobering to today's parchment warriors: In 1972, the U.S., the Soviet Union, and about 100 other nations signed a treaty in which they promised not to use or develop biological weapons. We know that many nations, including some of our opponents today in the Middle East, have egregiously violated these promises in secret.
But what is most disturbing is the discovery that our most ...
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