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Your great and wise president has decided to destroy the planet. Apparently the old missile dissarmament treaty is no longer necessary, because the US can afford to build a system to defend against any nukes. At all of this time the fact that other countries can't do it and earth will most probably be saturated with immense quantities of radiation, while lots of land and people are wiped out has not crossed his mind.
Add another tick in the tally of american arrogance/ingorance.
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Little pessimistic, aren't we? Perhaps you should post WHY you think this would start a war, instead of assuming that all think as you do?
But did it ever occur to you that this is a joint project with anyone else who wants it?
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The only rocket that needs protection is Simon's. It's a good thing he's on our side. And an unfortunate one he was not empoyed to woo the Female soviet population, during the cold war.
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Damn. UM's seen the real reason me and Lee keep trying to get Simon to go to a proper university in this country. Damn you Magnus!
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>"At all of this time the fact that other countries can't do it"
They're trying. At least, both China and the Russians are.
If you'll check the other post on this, you'll notice that intelligence reports that the Chinese and Russians are developing 'anti-satellite' weapons.
And as I said there, it's a small step from 'anti-satellite' to 'anti-missile,' because they use much of the same technology.
From msn News: "The ABM treaty actually permitted each side to devise a single, limited missile defense system � near a capital or near a ballistic missile launch site. Russia built such a system to defend Moscow. It still exists and has been upgraded several times."
So much for being 'incapable.'
And for a good reason...
""Under some plausible scenarios," the Rumsfeld commission declared, "... the United States might well have little or no warning before operational deployment" of ballistic missiles fired by North Korea, Iraq or other countries."
Six weeks after the Rumsfeld report, North Korea fired its three-stage Taepo-Dong One missile, which flew over Japan and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean."
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I'm a bit too lazy to go reading throught the whole previous discussion of this subject so...
I think they should have continued with the disarmament, it could only have meant a better future for everyone. At the same time, though, when countries like China, India, and Pakistan start testing nuclear bombs I can see where Bush is coming from, even if I disagree.
At the end of the day, diplomacy on everyone's part is the only satisfactory way out of this mess, but I suppose that's too much to ask.
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Incidentally, MSN also says that the US will be continuing to hold up its end of the START II Treaty, reducing its warhead count by half.
I don't see your other world powers doing that.
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Einstein was a scientist, not a politician, Daniel. The only way to prevent war, to whatever degree that that can be done, IS to prepare for it.
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So, if he'd run for office, and won, suddenly he could say "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war" and be correct? That's some funky logic. Why then, if only the lack of an election gives him a distinction of not being able to comment with authority (as Omega claims), would an election give him that power?
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 *** Card-Carrying Member of the FlareAPAO *** "I think this reason why girls don't do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, 'All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what's it going to be?' We all know what was chosen" - Rush Limbaugh, Feb. 23, 1994.
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