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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (81803)	3/13/2003 1:32:43 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

That is certainly more plausible. However, it does not take a pro- active United States to make WMDs attractive to revisionist powers. By their very nature, they are seeking significant shifts in territory and/or power, and all of the international system is devised to prevent such shifts, unless achieved through diplomacy. Thus, any revisionist power is likely to be batted down sooner or later, and has no hope of achieving its goals without WMDs to use as leverage. Therefore, there is not much else to do in the case of radical regimes than enforce a regimen forbidding WMDs, including pre-emptive action. Will that make it more likely to use them, so as not to lose them? Only if one is prepared to risk existential annihilation for the thrill of inflicting a large wound on one's enemy.......