Re: US Isolationism RE: US at war in 1940?1942? L3

[John D. Giorgis]

At 10:59 PM 6/13/01 -0500 Dan Minette wrote:
>> Accomodation is a two-way street, and if the rest of the World can't
>> understand.... desires to build a missile defense as soon  as we can
>develop the
>> technology - then that two-way converstaion will remain incredibly
>difficult.
>>
>That's not the problem.  The problem is building it before we have the
>technology.  For the last 30 years an effective missle defense program has
>only been 5 years away. :-)

Given the hysterics that have surrounded every test of the technology under
development, that characterization seems inaccurate to me.

JDG
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