As Senator Nunn (ph) has suggested, there ought to be some other work for military forces here at home and especially including the Nonal Guard and the Reserves. In solving the problems of
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America, in (infrastructure?), in eduction, in rural health, offering the possibility to our military personnel to serve as role models for at risk youngsters here at home. While all the while maintaining their consistent obligation to fulfill their primary military mission. The military's engineering capacities, education capacities, capacities for air lift of people in remote areas for health purposes. All these things could be used to benefit us here at home, to help us solve our problems, without weakening the military obligations of those who will be more stationed at home than abroad in the years ahead.
Finally, we cannot make America more secure unless we act against a host of new threats that don't respect national borders, such as terrorism, drug trafficking, and the global environmental degradation.
As Senator Gore has so compelling argued, the damage we do to the earth can be more than a threat to our health and resources, it can also aggravate international tensions and raise the chance of war itself.
One of the most dangerous new threats is the spread of military technology, especially weapons of mass destruction. We can't afford to wait until a host of Third World nations acquire full arsenals of first world weapons.
We all saw the enormity of that threat of Scud missiles arced across the night skies of Israel and Saudi Arabia. We need to clamp down on countries and companies that sell postscribed technology.
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Violators should be punished and we must work urgently with all countries for tough, enforceable, non-proliferation agreement.
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We need
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We badly need better intelligence to identify at an earlier stage for nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons program. need to give informational nuclear inspectors the authority and
to make spot inspections and the Clinton-Gore administration will not permit American firms again to sell (key?) technologies to outlaw states like Iraq.
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