I have a weakness for systems that defend civilians anywhere against missile attacks, including Palestinians who are defenseless against Israeli attacks.
Mr. Clinton will need to resist any impulse to approve the missile system as a political tactic to protect Vice President Al Gore from charges that the administration has left the country defenseless against missile attacks from terrorist states.
Putin countered by telling Barbara Walters, in an interview ABC broadcast last night, that the treaty, which keeps the U.S. and Russia defenseless against nuclear attack, was "essential, effective and useful".
A12 Leaders of the Kurds, whose gassing by Mr. Hussein's forces is among Washington's justifications for war, said they are defenseless against a chemical attack and that the United States has not responded to requests for gas masks and chemical weapons suits for 3.8 million people in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.
Moving the convention forward allows the nominee to spend those funds much sooner, so he or she is not defenseless against attack ads through much of the summer, as Romney was in 2012.
Children growing up in relatively cleaner environments were defenseless against the disease, which attacks the spinal cord and leads to paralysis of the muscles.
But HIV attacks and destroys T cells, leaving infected patients defenseless against many pathogens.
Distant units can attack without suffering damage, but they are defenseless against close combat troops.
And it would leave Americans defenseless against a president who may have committed the highest of crimes, colluding with a foreign power to attack our democracy.
Darryl Strawberry is drawn here, utterly defenseless against his worst impulses.
We're defenseless against Russian sabotage in the midterm elections.
