Word: russiaã
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While the newfound closeness may be part of an effort to maintain good relations with Russia after abandoning the ABM treaty, a consultative NATO role for Russia should be encouraged. Russia is no longer an enemy of the U.S., and Russia??s cooperation in the war in Afghanistan testifies to its willingness and potential to become an important partner with the West...
...Although it is indisputable that some Chechen separatists have resorted to attacks on civilians, the “cleansing” efforts of the Russian military and its refusal to cooperate with United Nations human rights observers have little to do with preventing terrorism. Now even mild condemnations of Russia??s human rights violations may be withheld in exchange for Russia??s partnership in the coalition against Osama bin Laden...
...Afghanistan will be a different story. And CNN and the other U.S. news stations will have to choose whether they will tell it. CNN can either join the information revolution and broadcast both sides of the war against terrorism or it can join the ranks of Russia??s Pravda and China’s The People’s Daily as biased mouthpieces of a ruling government. If they choose to tell the whole story as it unfolds, then Americans will see the gruesome reality of war-unprecedented since Viet Nam. And if this happens, President Bush?...
...Treaty with Russia. In addition, the new policy questions whether the policy of “mutually assured destruction,” which has guided American nuclear policy for so long, still applies in a world with many nuclear powers. Although the president’s overtures to Russia??who is eager to have a stake in any defense strategy lest its rusting arsenal become irrelevant—is laudable, his planned abrogation of the 1972 treaty is both alarming and provocative. An even greater worry is Bush’s unconcern for the Chinese reaction...
China is one of the most likely targets for the defenses that Bush has proposed, as its small arsenal of nuclear warheads could be nearly completely countered. Russia??s arsenal is far too vast to be defended against, but China—which would fear an American first strike without the ability to retaliate—would have a strong incentive to build up its arsenal in order to overwhelm the defenses. A renewed arms buildup could be severely destabilizing, and leaving China out of this process only courts further tension...