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Defining Success

In the era of willing coalitions, all the friends you can claim to have provide the appearance of cooperation.

The State Department with great fanfare on Tuesday signed an agreement with landlocked Mongolia that will allow Mongolian ships to be boarded and searched if they are suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction.

This despite the fact that Mongolia — a vast land that’s home to the Gobi Desert, windswept steppes and largely populated by nomadic yak herders — has no navy at all and lies thousands of miles from open waters.

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Asked what Washington hoped to achieve with the agreement, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said “I’ll have to check,” but he stressed it was a key part of the “Proliferation Security Initiative” that aims to halt trade in nuclear, chemical and biological weapons

In case the hordes rise up again and build a navy.