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...bizarre, because only three years ago both houses of Congress ordered the executive branch to deploy a national missile defense as soon as technologically feasible. That's the law of the land, and it can't be applied if they don't make money available. Withdrawing from the ABM treaty may create the first crease in congressional thinking on missile defense, but I think there's still a solid majority in both houses in favor of it. The numbers may shift a little if it involves abrogating the ABM treaty, but it's too early to say whether they...
...There are clear differences inside the administration on the question of the ABM treaty and missile defense. How will these affect the outcome...
...planned missile shield would violate the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile treaty, and Russia and China have voiced strong objections. Washington's European allies are mostly agnostic on missile defense, signaling that they'll support the scheme only if the U.S. can persuade the Russians to agree to renegotiate the ABM pact. And last week, Foreign Relations Committee chairman Senator Joe Biden - currently in China discussing missile matters with Jiang Zemin - warned that his party would stop the funding for missile defense if the administration went ahead amid opposition from Russia, China and U.S. allies...
...international discussion from whether to how the U.S. builds such a system. And that's a signal achievement. Of course the Devil may still reside in the details, as Russia and the Europeans (and Senate Democrats) insist on a treaty-based approach rather than on simply scrapping the 1972 ABM pact that precludes NMD. And out there in the wider world, nobody really shares the Bush administration's enthusiasm or sense of urgency about its deployment...
...Daschle's warning might give Bush pause. Among friends and foes alike, the perception is taking hold that Bush's America intends to go its own way. "Nobody's putting ABM on a pedestal," says Jacques Beltran, a researcher at the French Institute for International Relations. "But they're hostile to the U.S. pulling out of it unilaterally. This is all about style." To create a lasting new world order, transactions between the sole superpower and the rest of the globe need the appearance of give and take, not diktat...