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Bill Clinton's last flourish on the Nuclear Test Ban treaty won't exactly set the cat among President-elect Bush's pigeons. But it may ultimately provoke some interesting discussions behind closed doors in the new administration. Former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General John Shalikashvili is due to report to President Clinton Friday on the findings of his investigation into whether the U.S. should ratify the treaty - and according to reports, the general will recommend, counter to last year's Senate vote, that ratifying the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is in the nation's best interests...
...unverifiable and unenforceable, although his defense secretary nominee, Donald Rumsfeld, goes a lot further. Rumsfeld's complaint is that the CTBT would restrain the U.S. from developing a new generation of nuclear weapons - which is, of course, exactly what the treaty is designed to do: stop the arms race. Shalikashvili was mandated by President Clinton to meet with senators opposed to the treaty, and the result is a series of compromise proposals, such as a 10-year review and tighter verification procedures, designed to lure skeptics across the Senate floor...
...Even if there may be sharply different views on the treaty within the new Bush administration, the President-elect is unlikely to revive the issue despite Shalikashvili's warning that failure to ratify the treaty squanders an opportunity to restrain nations such as China, India and Pakistan from upgrading their nuclear arsenals. If their position on missile defense is any indicator, it is clear that the geo-strategic outlook of the officials of the new Bush administration is less concerned with existing arms-control treaties than with building a high-tech nuclear umbrella to counter whatever threats may arise...
Colin Powell, when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, upheld a doctrine that called for decisive use of U.S. military force with a clear goal. That notion eroded under his successor, John Shalikashvili, who told Congress in 1995 that U.S. troops sent to Bosnia as peacekeepers would be home within a year. Five years later, 5,000 U.S. troops are still there. An additional 6,000 are patrolling nearby Kosovo. Republicans on Capitol Hill have criticized such costly deployments as dulling the U.S. military's fighting edge...
...better days was a social and environmental disaster. Citing the very real danger of waves of refugees hitting the Florida coast, Gore contended that "what was at stake was stopping the killing and the dying and the worst of the misery," recalls former Joint Chiefs Chairman John Shalikashvili. "He insisted we do our homework and figure out how that could be done, which in the end we did, and [we] carried...