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In June 2006, William Perry, a former defense secretary, and Ashton Carter, a future one, argued in The Washington Post that if North Korea deployed on its territory a nuclear-armed missile capable of hitting the US, the US should attack and destroy it.
Many at the time rejected the policy altogether, warning that it would destroy incentives and bring the economy to a halt.
The Government the Eurozone DeservesATHENS – Will Greece’s troubles destroy Europe’s currency union, or reveal how it should be saved?
SWIFT’s compliance with that demand, however, would all but destroy any remaining incentive for Iran to remain in the JCPOA.
Increasingly brazen attacks on multilateralism and the international rule of law threaten to destroy the postwar global system that was created – with the UN as its vital pillar – to ensure that history would not repeat itself.
The NPT – a bedrock of peace for more than three decades – is based on a political agreement between nuclear and non-nuclear states: the latter abstain from obtaining nuclear weapons, while the former destroy their arsenals.
But central banks’ ability to create and destroy money is theoretically unlimited.
Since some of the groups opposing GM organisms destroy the field trials that could give us more knowledge, a more pertinent argument might be that many opponents do not want us to know more.
As a result, migration, more than any of the other myriad challenges the EU confronts today, has the potential to destroy the European project.
If home prices crash in the US, the bastion of capitalism, could it destroy confidence and end the boom in other countries?
A strike designed to destroy Assad’s air force and prevent him from dropping bombs full of nails on his people would concentrate his mind on a diplomatic solution.
And we continue to destroy forest land.
The larger party has limited ability to disarm or destroy the enemy, occupy territory, or use counterforce strategies effectively.
Hence, his solution is to destroy the global order and then negotiate with other countries on a bilateral basis.
The only thing left to do now is to destroy Al Nusra’s remaining enclave in Idlib and broker some kind of settlement between the YPG and Assad.
The Iranian regime is highly ideological and animated by an open passion to destroy Israel.
Mao also ordered the country to destroy the “Four Olds”: old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits.
So far, the main target of its campaign is the communists, whom Kremlin political operatives hope to destroy in the way they destroyed Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and former Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, head of the Fatherland party, who were the leading non-communist challengers during Putin's first presidential campaign.
The group has secured all that border territory by fighting the same jihadis whom Turkey claims to be trying to destroy.
As depositors flee from a weak bank, they can destroy the bank’s liquidity.
May, who called the snap election when the Conservatives had a 20-point lead in opinion polls, bet that she could destroy Farage’s UKIP by imitating it.
The Israeli government may have seized on the outrageous murders as a pretext for provoking Hamas into a response that would allow Israel, in turn, to invade and destroy the tunnels Hamas has dug from Gaza into Israel.
Israel has legitimate military objectives in Gaza: to stop the rockets and destroy the tunnels.
Of course, the West's ingratitude has been marked: America withdrew from the 1972 ABM Treaty and has now rammed a vague disarmament agreement - to be signed during the summit and which will allow the US not to destroy surplus missiles and warheads but rather to put them in cold storage - down Putin's throat.
Fighting for Life at 60LONDON – European Union heads of state just gathered to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome at a time when nativist nationalists are threatening to destroy Europe’s open liberal societies.
For all German Chancellors from Konrad Adenauer to Helmut Kohl, France was the favorite European partner, but they refused to accept French offers to create a "Franco-German union" that would destroy the mediating character of German foreign policy.
Finding security with others, rather than against them, and concentrating on cooperative approaches to achieving global and regional public goods, seems more productive than giving free rein to crude nationalist sentiment and planning ever more sophisticated and expensive ways to destroy one another.
But nationalist politicians whose declared goal is to destroy Europe’s unity and peaceful integration have now won in major democratic elections and referenda.
To destroy the ETS now would be to disable the only mechanism that has managed to create any momentum in discussions that have been dragging on for two decades.
Israel’s Nuclear Option in IranLOS ANGELES – Revelations in former President George W. Bush’s recently published memoirs show that he declined an Israeli request to destroy Syria’s secret nuclear reactor in the spring of 2007.
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