Word: abm
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...Clinton team's approach to the problem. "There was a sense they hadn't handled it well," Cheney told TIME last week. Second, the new Administration had a lot on its plate. Some things it had heaped there itself, like a commitment to stand down the Antiballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty of 1972--which, Cheney pointed out last week, needed to be done because "we had campaigned on a platform of missile defense." And some things had been heaped there for them. In April a U.S. reconnaissance plane was forced down in China, leading to a long standoff with Beijing...
...first months of 2001 that the world had changed less than the Clinton team had thought. Her Foreign Affairs article had stressed the importance of Washington's relations with great powers. And now she was helping manage a crisis with China while preparing for negotiations with Russia on the ABM treaty. In June she accompanied Bush on a trip to Eastern and Central Europe, the very territory that had been the focus of her time in government 10 years before. She wept as the President, in Warsaw, made a commitment to a "great alliance of liberty" with Europe; in Slovenia...
...number of things that we had to focus on. Certainly counterterrorism was one of them ... There were a lot of other issues. The ABM treaty was one of them. We had campaigned on a platform of missile defense ... [Vladimir] Putin was relatively new to the business, as was the President, and getting that relationship off to a good start was an important piece of business. China surfaced front and center early on ... You don't want to just walk in and just buy everything your predecessor left you ... You also have an obligation to get everybody to sit down...
...distressing as Russia’s new hypersonic missile may be, its development was rather predictable. Bush’s unilateral decision in December 2001 to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty with Russia set the stage for a miniature arms race. The ABM treaty existed to maintain the long-standing, effective principle of mutually assured destruction (MAD). MAD, however, requires that the each country accept some level of vulnerability—and with Bush refusing to do so, Russia felt compelled to develop systems capable of penetrating present and future U.S. defenses...
...intentions. The trouble he had persuading the United Nations to endorse an attack was caused, in part, by his repeated attacks on essential international agreements, from opposing the International Criminal Court and the Kyoto protocol to imposing illegal steel tariffs. The irresponsible decision to withdraw from the ABM treaty and pursue missile defense two years ago was but one stitch in Bush’s pattern of offending the rest of the world in pursuit of some dubious objective. And now that the U.S. is out of the ABM treaty and Russia has responded, the only thing America has gained...