41. Sanctions are not imposed out of peeve but to restrain rogue nations and for the protection of their chosen targets. 42. Should the United States worry about a nuclear strike on one of our cities by a rogue nation in the next few years? 43. Such an order puts Yugoslavia in the company of such rogue nations as Iran, Iraq, Libya and North Korea. 44. That means allowing the United States to defend its cities against rogue nations, terrorists and accidental launches only in ways that Moscow approves. 45. The Chemical Weapons Convention would bar nations from producing, selling or stockpiling chemical weapons and seek to curb their use by rogue nations and terrorists. 46. The goal now is not to defend the United States against an all-out nuclear barrage, but to thwart limited strikes by rogue nations like North Korea or Iran. 47. The end result could be a strategic force that while deploying far fewer nuclear weapons, fails to provide strong non-nuclear alternatives against rogue nations. 48. The final line of defense is to deny rogue nations the ability to use their missiles by deploying defenses and striking pre-emptively. 49. The other fears terrorists or rogue nations may have gotten hold of the Russian stocks, and want to use the U.S. sample to design vaccines and treatments. 50. The other irritant is our desire to be able to defend ourselves against dozens of missiles coming into the hands of rogue nations. |