about the so-called missile defense system in Polan CeJ jannuzi at gmail.com Thu Aug 28 21:05:28 MDT 2008
Of course it is not a defensive shield at all. The only thing it might eventually become effective at doing would be to augment US own first strike capability. This still only works out in those wild MAD scenarios of the Cold War. Also it would force Russia to spend money on developing counter measures. It's rather doubtful that the system will ever achieve a very high rate of success at hitting missiles that have already launched, but if it were used after a very devastating first strike, it might help to eliminate the handful that got launched in a counterattack (or that is most likely the scenario that is being used to justify funding such an ineffective anti-missile system). CJ ^^^ CB: And of course, the Soviets-Russians have been pointing out that Star Wars is offensive since Reagan and the Reganauts first came up with that bullshit, like he was fooling them. Of course , he was aiming to "fool" the American fools. It was/is another US escalation of the nuclear arms race, and the US did _every_ escalation of the nuclear arms race in history, making the US the greatest enemy of humanity in recorded history. This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc. www.surfcontrol.com _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
