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...roasted President Bush?s party as hostages to a "new isolationism," the Senate?s rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty having dealt a serious blow to the very global U.S. leadership that Bush had prized. It was a strange moment, which spoke volumes about the fate of U.S. foreign policy ? and the role in it of the presidency ? in the years since the Cold...
Weigel is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a non-governmental organization established in 1976 to study the connections between the Judeo-Christian moral tradition and domestic and foreign policy issues...
...nuclear Test Ban Treaty, but only if the President lets the matter lie for the duration of his term. And National Security Council Adviser Sandy Berger told the New York Times the administration could live with the condition that it scrap the treaty, which had been designated among the foreign policy priorities of Clinton's second term. In the end, the White House found Capitol Hill simply unwilling to accept any internationally defined limits on what the U.S. is able to do with its nuclear arsenal, despite the White House's entreaties to recognize that the treaty actually codifies Washington...
...avert that danger. Whether the Senate votes or decides to table the motion is irrelevant to the governments of such newly nuclear states as India and Pakistan. What matters is that the U.S. has failed to ratify the CTBT. Postponing a Senate vote means abandoning a key foreign policy goal, which sends the wrong message to the world - and in their minds, that lets them off the hook...
...more belligerent toward India," says Rahman. "A coup would also signal Washington?s waning influence over the Pakistani military ? the U.S. explicitly warned against the military seizing power only three weeks ago." Rhetoric aside, however, a military government may be cautious about dramatically changing Pakistan?s foreign relations. Even if they?re more defiant of Washington, Pakistan?s generals remain fairly beholden to their other major backer, Beijing. It was China?s refusal to support the Kashmir incursion that may ultimately have persuaded the Pakistani generals that they had no choice but to accept Nawaz?s order to retreat...