Not being there.

• Author: Hoagland, Jim

I accept that the Bush team has a strong underlying argument about the ABM Treaty's obsolescent features--as it did on the Kyoto treaty, the germ warfare treaty and the Durban anti-racism conference's treatment of Israel. But in each of these cases and many others, the administration has worked itself into a position of having to choose between just saying no--of breaking diplomatic china and leaving it to others to pick up the pieces--and having to accept the obviously...