by Patrick J Buchanan – December 24, 2003

“Trust but verify,” was Reagan’s motto in negotiating arms deals with Mikhail Gorbachev. And sound advice, too, on hearing that Col. Gadhafi has agreed to forswear nuclear and chemical weapons, and invited in British and U.S. scientists to give them the run of his laboratories and production facilities.

Gadhafi’s admission that he was pursuing nuclear weapons and his agreement to dismantle them is a triumph for President Bush and the Bush Doctrine. Why did the colonel accede to U.S. demands?