But he also worried that a unilateral war with Iraq would distract America from the tasks it had only just begun — stabilizing Afghanistan and defeating Al Qaeda — and seriously damage the alliances necessary to eliminate terrorism and other problems that freely cross borders: weapons proliferation, disease, environmental damage, ethnic conflict, impoverishment.
He said Pakistani forces had arrested militants elsewhere in the province, but he added, "They don't cross with weapons, so how will you separate them from ordinary people?" A senior American military official who tracks border issues did not dispute the Pakistanis' impression of border problems and said more equipment would be sent.
During a Thursday Capitol Hill forum, Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif). said that those who oppose efforts to reinstate a ban on assault weapons in the U.S. and closely regulate cross-border weapon traffic are -- perhaps inadvertently -- contributing to violence and an unacceptable number of deaths in Mexico.
Khalilzad said he discussed with the Iranians cross-border weapons transfers and "money, training, support for militias, and other illegal armed groups". "Nobody was pounding the table," Khalilzad said.
Autonomous weapons "cross a moral threshold," HRW says.
We invest a vast amount of money in intelligence and terrorists have to, by their nature, take risks: cross borders, move weapons.
Yet the country's nuclear programme marches on, stoking fears that Iran may indeed be seeking to cross the nuclear weapons threshold.
Consequently, President Obama is in danger of achieving the opposite of his intention: Iran may well decide that rather than negotiate a compromise, its best choice is actually to cross the nuclear weapons threshold, with fateful consequences for all.
Like drones, these weapons cross national boundaries at will; in the case of Olympic Games they invaded the computer controllers that run Iran's nuclear centrifuges, spinning them wildly out of control.
But Taliban fighters — anyone, really — can cross and smuggle weapons and drugs, underscoring the challenge to the American war effort in Afghanistan, for which the border presents a much firmer barrier, as Pakistan does not allow NATO or American military forces to cross.
Frank lost control of his horse and, firing his weapon, crossed Fremont Street to the sidewalk on the east side.
