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Two Perfect Storms For Iran and N. Korea
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Bush was not wrong about the dangers of turning a blind eye to proliferation. After all, the charges that the Europeans and Asians level against Iran and North Korea form precisely the legal case that the administration made against Saddam Hussein: The Iranians and North Koreans also have hidden evidence and lied about their unconventional weapons programs in defiance of U.N. obligations.
Other countries argue that Iraq showed that Washington alone could not bring into being a workable new global strategy against proliferation and then force the rest of the world to accept it. They have a point. But they also now have an obligation to produce an effective alternative to the obsolete U.N. controls as well as to the Bush approach.
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The German fertility rate used in Thursday's column should have been stated as 1.5 children per couple, not as 1.5 percent. The replacement rate is therefore 2.1 children per couple.
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