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From: al@ames.UUCP (Al Globus)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: A Review of "Hard Questions About Arms Control"
Message-ID: <912@ames.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Apr-85 22:05:41 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  3 22:05:41 1985
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> 
> "The United States, by the nature of its society, can be expected to
> adhere to a strict interpretation of the terms [of a treaty].
>

The American Indians would certainly be surprised to hear this.  We 
broke practically every treaty we ever made with them, even though
we usually dictated the terms in the first place.  One treaty gave
almost the entire western US to the Indians "in perteputity" (sp).
The US also violated the 1954 Geneva accords on Vietnam in the
early '60s by building up troops, rather than only replacing them
as required.  These violations were deliberately covered
up by distributing the troops in small groups.  I like living here, I like
our form of government, but there is ample evidence to suggest that
we cannot be trusted to keep the treaties we make if we can get
away with breaking them.