Posted on 12/13/2001 9:05:28 PM PST by Pokey78
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:47 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Last month's Putin-Bush summit at Crawford was deemed an arms control failure because the rumored deal -- Russia agrees to let us partially test, but not deploy, defenses that violate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty -- never came off.
In fact, it was a triumph. Like Reagan at the famous 1986 Reykjavik summit, at which he would not give up the Strategic Defense Initiative to Gorbachev, Bush was not about to allow Putin to lock the United States into any deal that would prevent us from building ABM defenses.
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Up until now I have not liked the term unilateralism being applied to Bush's foreign policy due to the negative spin which was implied when it was used. I had prefered to think the Bush was doing what he thought was the right thing to do.
If the VLWC is willing to accept Krauthammer's definition than "long live unilateralism"
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