Quote:In recent years the U.S. government has not set a good example, having abandoned the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty; binding limitations on testing nuclear weapons and development of new ones; and a long-standing policy of foregoing threats of "first use" of nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states.
It's the two semicolons that confuse me. Can I understand the sentence this way:
The US has not set a good example--
1) it has abandoned ABM;
2) it has abandoned the limitations on testing nuclear weapons and development of new ones that are legally binding;
3) it has abandoned a long-standing policy of foregoing threats of "first use" of nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states.
I am afraid I have missed the logic of Jimmy Carter's sentence because his use of the semicolon.
What do you think?
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