Nuclear Warrior Replaces Bolton as Arms Control Chief - by Tom Barry
Nuclear Warrior Replaces Bolton as Arms Control Chief - by Tom Barry: "Nuclear Warrior Replaces Bolton as Arms Control Chief
by Tom Barry
The top U.S. government official in charge of arms control advocates the offensive use of nuclear weapons and has deep roots in the militarist political camp.
Moving into the old job of John Bolton, the administration's hardcore unilateralist nominee to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Robert G. Joseph is the right wing's advance man for counterproliferation as the conceptual core of a new U.S. military policy.
Within the administration, he leads a band of counterproliferationists who – working closely with such militarist policy institutes as the National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP) and the Center for Security Policy (CSP) – have placed preemptive attacks and weapons of mass destruction at the center of U.S. national security strategy.
Joseph replaced John Bolton at the State Department as the new undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs.
U.S. security strategy, according to the new arms control chief, should 'not include signing up for arms control for the sake of arms control. At best that would be a needless diversion of effort when the real threat requires all of our attention. At worst, as we discovered in the draft BWC (Biological Weapons Convention) Protocol that we inherited, an arms control approach would actually harm our ability to deal with the WMD threat.'
Before the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks, proponents of national missile defense and a more 'flexible' nuclear defense strategy focused almost exclusively on the WMD threat from 'competitor' states such as Russia and especially China, and from 'rogue' states such as Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and North Korea.
Joseph and other hard-line strategists advocated large increases in military spending to counter these threats while paying little or no attention to the warnings that the most likely at"
by Tom Barry
The top U.S. government official in charge of arms control advocates the offensive use of nuclear weapons and has deep roots in the militarist political camp.
Moving into the old job of John Bolton, the administration's hardcore unilateralist nominee to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Robert G. Joseph is the right wing's advance man for counterproliferation as the conceptual core of a new U.S. military policy.
Within the administration, he leads a band of counterproliferationists who – working closely with such militarist policy institutes as the National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP) and the Center for Security Policy (CSP) – have placed preemptive attacks and weapons of mass destruction at the center of U.S. national security strategy.
Joseph replaced John Bolton at the State Department as the new undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs.
U.S. security strategy, according to the new arms control chief, should 'not include signing up for arms control for the sake of arms control. At best that would be a needless diversion of effort when the real threat requires all of our attention. At worst, as we discovered in the draft BWC (Biological Weapons Convention) Protocol that we inherited, an arms control approach would actually harm our ability to deal with the WMD threat.'
Before the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks, proponents of national missile defense and a more 'flexible' nuclear defense strategy focused almost exclusively on the WMD threat from 'competitor' states such as Russia and especially China, and from 'rogue' states such as Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and North Korea.
Joseph and other hard-line strategists advocated large increases in military spending to counter these threats while paying little or no attention to the warnings that the most likely at"
posted by Greta Jane at Saturday, June 11, 2005
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