How should the existence and use of weapons of mass destruction be dealt with?
They should be eliminated. The non-proliferation treaty commits countries with nuclear weapons to take steps towards eliminating them. The biological and chemical weapons treaties have the same goals. The main Security Council resolution concerning Iraq (687, 1991) calls for eliminating weapons of mass destruction and delivery systems from the Middle East and working towards a global ban on chemical weapons. Good advice. Iraq is nowhere near the lead in this regard. We might recall the warning of General Lee Butler, head of Clintons Strategic Command in the early 1990s, that it is dangerous in the extreme that in the cauldron of animosities that we call the Middle East, one nation has armed itself, ostensibly, with stockpiles of nuclear weapons, perhaps numbering in the hundreds, and that inspires other nations to do so. Hes talking about Israel of course. The Israeli military authorities claim to have air and armored forces that are larger and more advanced than those of any European
