41. It can -- and sometimes does -- stop weapons smuggling and terrorism by rogue states and tribes with flags. 42. It is not surprising that the State Department would want to redefine rogue states, because at least some of the rogues are looking to go straight. 43. It is difficult to imagine two Iraq-like rogue states risking wars that America felt compelled to enter. 44. Jordan, after all, is the tiny next-door neighbor to both rogue state Iraq and traditional Arab nemesis Israel. 45. McCain urged a particularly aggressive approach toward what he called rogue states. 46. Milosevic has whittled his own people down to a rogue state, diminished in area, numbers, reputation, economy, and moral respect. 47. More likely clients, they claim, would be rogue states in the Third World. 48. Multilateral treaties, such as most of those covering arms control, have the effect of tying down the signatories while rogue states roam free. 49. No longer talking about rogue states will make that easier to explain. 50. No one knows what rogue states might conceive of, and those in favor of the system suggest it could act as a deterrent. |