They ve just been largely repudiated by their people. They re clinging to power, including the national security apparatus. They re getting weapons of mass destruction from North Korea and Russia and China and elsewhere. They worry me. And you re absolutely right.
China is, at the moment, threatening to attack the United States with nuclear weapons.
That s got to be a concern as well. One hopes that there remains some element of rationality in some of these countries, though it s not self-evident. But you can t use that as a defense policy. Though that is the Clinton Administration s view. That and arms control are what the Administration believes we should rely upon as a defense policy.