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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Treaties are broken all the time.


3 posted on 11/07/2008 5:43:42 AM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: clee1
Treaties are broken all the time.

Indeed. They are simply contracts between nations. When one party defaults, who can the other party go see about it?

The US withdrew from the ABM Treaty with Russia using the terms of the treaty. That isn't, of course, the same as breaking it.

12 posted on 11/07/2008 5:51:12 AM PST by stevem
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