Under no circumstances should the United States assent to German demands for further liberalization of the multilateral export control regime unless and until Bonn can demonstrate the adoption of a far more conscientious technologysecuritypolicy and effective enforcement of existing arrangements.
President Bush, like Ronald Reagan before him, should call for a ministerial meeting involving all COCOM nations to review the current state and future direction of Western technologysecuritypolicy.
While the foregoing litany illustrates the mindset of many in the Bush Administration on the irrelevance of a rigorous technologysecuritypolicy in the so-called post-Cold War world, the specific device being used to force reckless decontrol actions through the U.S. government warrants special mention.
The Center for SecurityPolicy believes that the blatant contradictions and misrepresentations riddling this chronology beg a number of serious questions about German technologysecurity policies past, present and future.
At a minimum, doing so will alert them to the risks that attend some of the policy choices affecting the economic, financial and technologysecurity portfolio.
We at the Center for SecurityPolicy believe it imperative that the technology involved in the NASP be pursued as vigorously as the state of the art will permit.