If it then threatens to withdraw from its other arms-control treaties with America it could find itselfeven worse off, since richer America is far better able to look after itself in a rearmament free-for-all.
Administration funding cuts for our anti-ballistic missile programs and advanced fighters like the F-22 may cause others to doubt America's willingness to defend evenitself.
America fears that even with safeguards on the reactor itself, the project is a cover for Iran to seek other help especially uranium-enrichment technology for its covert nuclear-weapons programme.
On the other hand, chemical or biological arms may be used against America's allies in the region -- or even the United States, itself -- whether or not the President orders the disarming of Iraq in the only way likely to prove effective, i.e.