“In deciding to announce the plan today, the administration is essentially short-circuiting the debate over whether the systems works, just as withdrawing from the treaty…
December 19th, 2002
“In deciding to announce the plan today, the administration is
essentially short-circuiting the debate over whether the systems works,
just as withdrawing from the treaty skirted the question of whether the
United States could legally do so. Putting the system in place would
also allow Mr. Bush to fulfill his campaign pledge to field the
beginnings of antimissile system by the end of his first term.”