For we are serious about conventional arms control. Indeed it is an Alliance priority. These are the forces that are used to seize and hold territory and to conduct short-warning and major offensive operations. So we cannot have military stability in Europe until this heavy shadow of Soviet military power is removed once and for all. The second area of our political activity will be overcoming the division of Europe.
Arms control is the agenda of stability through radical change.
The same is true of our overall political agenda. We will challenge the Soviet leadership to see how serious they are about a new relationship with us - one based on real reform and political change. Our challenges are not only addressed to arms control. They focus on all those political topics which our Western values lead us to care deeply about - and from which alone real, irreversible improvements in the daily lives of Eastern Europeans can come. Thus I ask the questions.