Word: restraint
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...smaller nations are demanding state-of-the-art equipment in everything from fighters to frigates. Even as they deplore the buildup and fear its consequences, the major arms sellers echo the old dirge of 19th century slave traders: "If we don't sell, someone else will." The only effective restraint on the seller, it seems, is the difficulty in beating competitors to the most lucrative contracts...
...start negotiations to buy a similar surveillance plane from Britain, the Nimrod. When the Soviets refused to resupply Iraq after the outbreak of the gulf war, Dictator Saddam Hussein turned to Egypt, France and some East-bloc arms dealers. Where is the reward for restraint? And where are the limits to global arming...
...there could develop the will to control the trade of conventional arms, just as there is now a general desire to control the proliferation of nuclear weapons, it would in theory be possible to make a beginning toward restraint. Suggests David Aaron, former assistant to Zbigniew Brzezinski on Carter's National Security Council...
Perhaps the best path is to pursue areas where there is already some evidence of restraint. The U.S. has been cautious about the sale of advanced technologies, like
...Carter discovered, a unilateral policy of weapons-sale restraint can be bootless. But a policy that exalts a lack of restraint can likewise reap a whirlwind of unwanted, unpredictable challenges. If Reagan abandons any serious attempt to seek controls for the flow of weaponry, he will have given in to a danger that threatens American interests, with only the poor excuse that others...