Yes, the ATT Does Indeed Impinge on the Reagan Doctrine

Syria: Would the U.N. ATT Ban Aid to the Rebels?, Heritage Foundation Foundry, June 27, 2013. "There are indeed good reasons to be skeptical about arming the rebels in Syria. But by arguing the broader case that the ATT bans aid to non-state actors, the treaty proponents are rejecting a bipartisan tool of U.S. foreign policy, one that we may not want to use now but should not abandon. They are validating the concerns of treaty opponents, who have long argued that the ATT was a device to transform U.S. arms export policy. They are also effectively putting themselves on the side of the well-armed totalitarian regimes that kill unarmed people. And there is a final irony. The ATT is being promoted by an Administration that is seemingly intent, in Syria, on seeing the treaty their way. Other governments are likely to do the same, which implies that the ATT – to the extent that it does not over time constrain the U.S., as its advocates argue it should and will – is likely to achieve nothing at all."