No to the Chemical Arms Treaty
By James Schlesinger, Caspar Weinberger, And Donald Rumsfeld Washington Post, 05 March 1997 The phrase "damning with faint praise" is...
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Truth or Consequences #7: Schlesinger, Rumsfeld and Weinberger Rebut Scowcroft and Deutch on the C.W.C.
(Washington, D.C.): Today's Washington Post featured an op.ed. article by three of the most distinguished public servants of the latter...
Gen. Schwartzkopf Tells Senate He Shares Critics’ Concerns About Details of the Chemical Weapons Convention
(Washington, D.C.): Under questioning before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, General Norman Schwartzkopf -- commander of the allied forces...
A Place To Start on Campaign Finance Reform: C.M.A. Should Refrain From Putting Senators in Compromising Positions On the Chemical Weapons Convention
(Washington, D.C.): Last night, the Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA), an organization representing some 190 large American and multinational chemical producers,...
Har Homa Is a Test of the ‘Peace Process’: Arab Violence Will Prove the Process to be Simply Warfare by Other Means
(Washington, D.C.): The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to announce today that it will go ahead...
Deng’s Demise is an Opportunity to Take Stock, Change Course on One-Sided U.S. Policy of ‘Engagement’ with China
(Washington, D.C.): The long-awaited (and possibly long-postponed) announcement of Deng Xiao Ping's passing offers the United States a long-overdue opportunity...
Truth or Consequences #6: The C.W.C. Will Not Prevent Chemical Terrorism Against the U.S. or its Interests
(Washington, D.C.): In recent weeks, proponents of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) have cited the contribution this Convention would make...
‘A Bridge Too Far’? Pending Defense Industry Merger Raises Serious National Security, Competitiveness Concerns
(Washington, D.C.): In 1993, then-Secretary of Defense William Perry made it clear that the Clinton Administration believed that consolidation in...
At What Price NATO Expansion?
(Washington, D.C.): Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's world tour is taking on the hallmarks of a fire-sale -- a frantic...
Truth or Consequences #5: The C.W.C. Will Not Be Good for Business — To Say Nothing of The National Interest
(Washington, D.C.): Proponents of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) now awaiting consideration by the United States Senate often declare that...
‘Coming Home to Roost’: Proliferating Crises In Southern Europe Eviscerate the Illusion of Post-Cold War ‘Stability’
(Washington, D.C.): It is becoming ever more evident that the Balkans are poised once again to ignite in spasms of...
Truth or Consequences #4: No D.N.A. Tests Needed To Show That Claims About Republican Paternity of C.W.C. Are Overblown
(Washington, D.C.): The Clinton Administration's hole card in its bid to persuade a Republican-controlled Senate to agree to ratification of...
‘Hold Everything’: Barshefsky’s New Info Tech Trade Deal Promotes Trade at Expense of U.S. Security Interests
(Washington, D.C.): Last December, the Acting U.S. Trade Representative, Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, presided over the completion of a "Ministerial Declaration...
Truth or Consequences #3: Clinton ‘Makes a Mistake About It’ in Arguing the C.W.C. Will Protect U.S. Troops
(Washington, D.C.): President Clinton used his State of the Union address Tuesday night to launch his Administration's latest and highest...
A Scorecard for Gore-Chernomyrdin
(Washington, D.C.): Over the next two days, largely secretive contacts that have come to be the Kremlin's preferred channel for...
Russia’s Covert Chemical Weapons Program Vindicates Jesse Helms’ Continuing Opposition to Phony C.W. Arms Control
(Washington, D.C.): The Clinton Administration's campaign to railroad Senators into approving the fatally flawed Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) ran into...