The Bush administration's newfound respect for treaties


	The Bush administration's newfound respect for treaties

jklugman

4-29-2007 12:12 AM

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bush administration, condoleeza rice, hypocrisy, russia, diplomacy

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"Any attempts to change the [Anti-Ballistic Missile] treaty will shake the strategic root and trunk of world peace and security." --<I>Russian President Vladimir Putin urging the Bush administration in February 2001 not to abandon the pact, months before it ignored him and withdrew anyway.</I>
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"These are treaty obligations, and everyone is expected to live up to treaty obligations." --<I>Condoleezza Rice lecturing the Russians last week not to scuttle a 17-year-old weapons treaty with Europe.</I>
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It's a truism by now that the Bush administration has damaged our moral authority in the world, but it's easy to forget that Iraq was only the apotheosis of this problem. I wish Putin wouldn't scrap Russia's <B><A class="articlelink" target="new" href=" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/world/europe/27russia.html">deal with NATO</A></B>; but, after the ABM treaty, steel tariffs, and the Geneva Conventions, you've got to admire Rice's chutzpah in demanding his fealty to "treaty obligations" -- particularly after the example we set for him in 2001.
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