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To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: ABM Treaty
>
> 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.
> --
> 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
>
Come to Texas, if you think civility is a conservative virtue. What the
Democrats call Bush is very very mild compared to what people like Barbara
Jordon was called by her conservative colleauges in the State House. Or,
the names Hillery gets called all the time in public. Shrub is kinda
affectionate by comparison.
Dan M.
