By Stanley A. Weiss Published: April 21, 1997 "Now, once again after a war (this time the Cold War), America is at a crossroads. Will it return to the extremist policies it followed after the World War I or demonstrate the generosity of spirit that animated American foreign policy after World War II and contained and then defeated the Soviet Union? The chemical convention presents such a choice. " (The writer is founder and chairman of Business Executives for National Security, an organization of U.S. business leaders. He contributed this comment to the International Herald Tribune.) -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_Weapons_Convention