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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans
for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be
limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI
all over again?
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speedbird77
- 09:28am May 2, 2001 EST (#2963
of 2996)
While I agree with you about Bush, I see no way of tossing him
from power.
The United States can not and must not shirk its responsibilities
as leader and protector of the free world no matter who is in the
White House.
What made this nation great is its abiliy to overcome the
greatest of odds in all its great endeavors.
While Bush may be a putz this nation is surely greater than one
man.
cookiess0
- 09:34am May 2, 2001 EST (#2964
of 2996)
speedbird77 - 08:24am May 2, 2001 EST (#2961 of 2963)
ahhh yes. The great "moon" and technology of space race argument.
I'll save you some air fella. It does not matter. The race to the
moon could be done and enough cash was thrown at it that it did. SDI
can be done and if enough cash is thrown at it I'm sure it too can
be done. The real perspective is that NMD is NUTs. It actually puts
at risk the very nation your trying to protect:) So please, enough
with your attempts to say "welp some people said we couldn't go to
the moon"...Whatever pal. You cannot get over the implications of
this system. You are so worried about if you could do it, you never
bothered to consider if you should.
speedbird77
- 09:39am May 2, 2001 EST (#2965
of 2996)
Synopsis: We're not making any friends out there, and those of
whom we considered friends are suddenly becoming quiet, or even
worse, speaking out against us.
This nation will not get anywhere if all we care about is winning
popularity contests or being loved by everyone.
The hard choices have to be made not according to who loves us
but according to what our true defense needs are for the protection
of US citizens and our allies.
Those who wish not to join us are free to face a world with
Iraqi, Iranian and or North Korean nuclear warheads on their own.
Within ten short years, at least one or possibly all of these
nations will posess nuclear materials.
To say they will not is to take an awful gamble with millions of
American lives.
As the Chinese begin their new deployments of road-mobile ICBM's
in the coming year, I for on would like to know that the US has some
capability to neutralize these killers.
cookiess0
- 09:40am May 2, 2001 EST (#2966
of 2996)
"he United States can not and must not shirk its responsibilities
as leader and protector of the free world no matter who is in the
White House."
Good then. Do not make the majority of this world, the rational
nation state throw nuclear deterrence out the window because the
largest nuclear power wants to add the chance of survival into an
equation that never had it before.
By the way. Between 1998 and January 2001, 2.5 million people
have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 80% from
government sanctioned famine, 20% from war. Where is the "leader and
protector"? Or did too many senators and GOP office holders still
have Hans Morganthau in their hands after 93.
cookiess0
- 09:44am May 2, 2001 EST (#2967
of 2996)
NMD dear speedbird induces all other rational actors, the
majority of this world-the rational state to make nuclear conflict
survivable. It ruins nuclear deterrence. The actions of the largest
nuclear power trying to defend itself from nuclear strikes makes all
other nuclear powers, whom are rationale defend against it. It
actually destroys the very foundations of stability one is trying to
maintain.
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