In its first elght months in office, the bush admin- istration has shown scant regard for other nations' views on global warming, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the International Criminal Court, and the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. The administration has seemed determined to torpedo any possible verification protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention. It has treated Russia with disdain and China as the next enemy. And it plans to rush deployment of a national missile defense as early as 2004. The light dawned for a few Bush administration officials after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They realized that other countries could assist the United States in confronting terrorism―and maybe even with stemming the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, enforcing international sanctions, preventing pollution from spreading across borders, and limiting massive flows of refugees. But the light has not dawned for the president.
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