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Secretary of State Colin Powell, in an interview on Fox News Sunday (2/9), said something that confirmed an observation of my own. Secretary Powell pointed out, with evident bemusement, the frustration of being criticized simultaneously for being unilateral in the case of Iraq, and multilateral in the case of North Korea. Of course, the charges of unilateralism against the U.S. for trying to force Iraq to live up to UN Resolution 1441, have by now been exposed as bogus. The fact that 18 countries are currently allied with America disputes that theory. But this hasn’t stopped the opponents of the...

<p>WASHINGTON - President Bush's new $15 billion initiative to fight AIDS globally includes the largest amount ever, American or otherwise, devoted to treatment of those infected with the disease in the poor world, US officials said yesterday.</p> <p>But activists said the proposal also suggests that the United States wants to act unilaterally and does not trust global coalitions.</p>

<p>Even as U.S. troops stream into the Persian Gulf, Americans in overwhelming numbers say they oppose unilateral U.S. military action against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a nationwide Knight Ridder poll has found.</p> <p>Many survey respondents say President Bush has not yet sold them on the wisdom or necessity of putting American soldiers in harm's way, although three-quarters believe that Iraq poses a serious threat to the United States.</p>

JEANNE SHAHEEN filled out a questionnaire last November for the anti-nuke Council for a Livable World. In it, she said she opposed a unilateral American withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the former Soviet Union. In Monday night’s debate with opponent John Sununu, she changed her tune, saying she supported President Bush’s withdrawal from the treaty. Too bad for the Council for a Livable World, which has raised $65,000 for Shaheen. The group’s Web site lists her as “a supporter of arms control” and says “She disagrees with President Bush’s mid-December decision to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile...

Jane's Defence Weekly August 28, 2002 Russia To Retain MIRVs Beyond START II Deadline By Nikolai Novichkov, JDW Correspondent, Moscow Russia will not destroy its arsenal of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle (MIRV) inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in the timeline stipulated under the provisions of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II (START II), but will retain its MIRV capability until 2016, according to Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov. Following the signing of the Strategic Offensive Reduction Treaty by US President George Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin on 28 May, Russia announced it would withdraw from the provisions of START...

New Nuclear Disarmament Treaty Heralds the Beginning of the End for the US as a Superpower by David T. Pyne May 21, 2002 Note: This is the final Part of a three part series on the Bush-Putin Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty. Earlier this week, President Bush (right) announced his intention to sign a sweeping new nuclear disarmament treaty with the Russian Federation, stating his belief that "this treaty…would make the world more peaceful and put behind us the Cold War once and for all." The nuclear disarmament of the United States was the liberal's policy prescription for ending the Cold...

    Home Page • Commentary • Opinion • Feedback OpinioNet Contributed Commentary OpinioNet Contributed Commentary - David T. Pyne May 18, 2002 David T. Pyne Do Russian Nukes Still Threaten the US? May 18, 2002 [Note: This is Part II of a three part series on the Bush-Putin Nuclear Reduction Treaty] As the recently released 2001 US Nuclear Posture Review has as one of its principle tenets for the Bush Administration¡¯s vast politically motivated reductions of the US strategic nuclear arsenal that Russia and its huge nuclear arsenal are no longer a threat and that the US nuclear...

OPPOSED BY THE PENTAGON BUSH'S NUCLEAR DETERRENT DISARMAMENT PLAN (PART 1 Of 3) By: David T. Pyne US and Russian arms control negotiators have reportedly reached an agreement on the terms for a new treaty between the US and Russia to reduce the size of the US arsenal to about 1700-2200 nuclear warheads each. President Bush has announced that he plans to sign it at the Bush-Putin summit in Moscow on May 24th. The Russians sought a binding agreement in order to make the planned US nuclear disarmament measures “irreversible” while Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld worked to keep provisions...

San Jose Mercury News April 27, 2002 Rumsfeld Reportedly Resists Firm Limits On Nuclear Arms By Jonathan S. Landay, Mercury News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his aides have been fighting a rearguard action against White House efforts to limit the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal in a treaty with Russia, senior administration officials contend. At one point, President Bush had to order Rumsfeld to stop opposing a treaty now being negotiated that would limit the United States and Russia to deploying no more than 1,700 to 2,200 operational warheads each by 2012, said the...