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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: goldworldnet who wrote (361779)	2/21/2003 2:17:17 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) of 769670

The problem, I think, is that once a nation 'goes nuclear' it is unlikely to go back. Only South Africa renounced it's nuclear weapons after building them (and Brazil... a year or two before testing them). Circumstances were particular in both cases... Democracy had swept out the old autocratic rulers, and their were large economic benefits attached to renouncing their nukes. Perhaps we can learn from those examples: 1) Democratic governments - generally - are more peaceful... so they should always be preferred over even the most 'compliant' of 'friendly dictators'. Here, our long-term national interest of promoting Democracies should ALWAYS trump our occasional tendency to back authoritarian rulers who 'play ball' (Saudi Arabia, anyone? Pakistan? Indonesia? Egypt? Former Soviet Republics?) 2) Offering a big financial benefit for renouncing nukes, or the aiding of proliferation (Russia, Germany, Pakistan)... and exacting a big financial hit (embargoes, trade sanctions, denial of loans and grants, seizing the leader's bank accounts and property) for those who pursue nuclear ambitions... eventually seems to work also. We need to get all the big power behind these type of actions.

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