Doug wrote:
I got curious about the ABM treaty and its provisions for withdrawal as
discussed earlier. This is what I found.
Article XV
1. This Treaty shall be of unlimited duration.
2. Each Party shall, in exercising its national sovereignty, have the
right to withdraw from this Treaty if it decides that extraordinary
events related to the subject matter of this Treaty have jeopardized its
supreme interests. It shall give notice of its decision to the other
Party six months prior to withdrawal from the Treaty. Such notice shall
include a statement of the extraordinary events the notifying Party
regards as having jeopardized its supreme interests.
http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/treaties/abm/abm2.html
I'm really curious as to what "extraordinary events" the Shrub will cite
in order to withdraw.
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Doug
Me:
Well, my history isn't that good, but I seem to recall something important
happening around 1991 - a really big country falling apart, something like
that? I might be wrong, but that might qualify as an "extraordinary event"
that affects our view of the treaty :-)
Just as a side note - I would find the use of the term "Shrub" offensive if
it weren't so pathetic. So you don't like him. I know that civility has
become a purely conservative virtue nowadays - certainly judging by campus
politics liberals stopped believing in it a long time ago - but that's
really kind of sad, and it probably does more to explain why Bush won
(when, given the economic background, Gore should have pulled 60% of the
vote) than any other single factor.
Gautam
