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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?

rickg1968 - 03:23pm May 2, 2001 EST (#3015 of 3017)

Common sense alone tells you that the establishment of the MDS will only cause to throw off the balance of power.

How do you combat a system like the MDS? -- you build more nukes in hopes of overwhelming it. How do you combat more nukes being built? You build MORE nukes!

It's an inevitable downward spiral. When and where does it end? When will one of our "leaders" show true grit and courage and actually begin LEADING the world to true peace?

rshowalter - 03:26pm May 2, 2001 EST (#3016 of 3017)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

disbelief1 5/2/01 2:18pm says:

" Bush Bush Powell Cheney and Rumsfeld don't have a clue, let alone depth and experience like Clinton and his idiot cabinet, right?"

I wouldn't say that inexperience or depth are so much of a problem. Based solely on what I can see and piece together, including financial arrangements, my question about, at the least, the elder Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld would be

Could corruption be the problem?

What they're doing seems to be in gross disregard of the national interest -- a reckless endangering of the United States of America.

Based on what I know of the chances of success of the huge boondoggle they're peddling, that's what it amounts to.

Of course, that's just a guess. But, shouting aside, I've seen nothing else that fits even remotely as well.

Never said, and never thought, that those people were either stupid or inexperienced.

I'm looking for another rational explanation of what they're doing.

rshowalter - 03:29pm May 2, 2001 EST (#3017 of 3017)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

gisterme 5/2/01 3:20pm

Quite a lot to acknowledge, especially after 1991.

And quite a lot of reason for concern for impropriety now.

But I notice that there is a good deal at the level of fact (not interpretation) where we agree, at least broadly.

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