A CFC TREATY?

Neville Shultz, the Congress's Secretary, is favoring a CFC treaty committing its signatories to the reduced use and eventual ban of CFCs. This implies the megalomaniac assumption that the ozone layer cannot take care of itself, and that the bureaucrats in the world's Foreign Offices can protect it. Should the US sign?

As the only legal wielder of force, the US government's only moral mandate is to use that force for the defense of its citizens' security. It has no right to conclude treaties with other countries for any other purpose, which preempts lesser arguments such as insuffi-cient knowledge about the ozone layer, non-compliance by non-signatories, and utter inability to affect the ozone layer by chemical bans and rain dances.

If Neville Shultz wanted to be Secretary of State, he could stop enforcing the Brezhnev doctrine in Mozambique and Angola, and start doing something about the Nicaraguan Stalinistas.