"John D. Giorgis" wrote:
>
> Now, we have Europe lecturing us for dumping a Treaty that *none* of them
> have ratified, and would force us to cut our carbon emissions by a whopping
> 30%, with hardly any alternative measures of relief, while sparing India
> and China any cuts whatsoever.
>
5% of the worlds people using 25% of the world's energy. Pretty obvious who
should cut back the most.
> Then of course, there is the amazing inability of other Western nations to
> understand the American desire to defend itself from attack. Maybe its
> different in Australia, considering the liklihood of a rogue state
> expending a nuclear missile on Australia rather than the US. That still
> doesn't explain why Europeans seem so baffled by our desire for a missile
> defense.
Not my desire for a system who's $100 million tests (which consist of trying
to hit the lamest excuse for a target that they could get away with, including
a "decoy" that actually aided detection) have all been miserable failures.
Not my desire for a system that could be avoided by the simplest of ploys. I
mean, really, come on, tons and tons of drugs are smuggled into this country,
you don't think that if a "rogue" country wanted to it couldn't sneak a nuke
in? Hell, they could probably disguise it as drugs to get it in.
Not to mention the forign relations nightmare that the whole stupid idea
threatens to trigger. Is there a better way to trigger a new arms race? This
whole thing has more to do with grown up kids wanting new toys to play with
than anything else.
>
> Accomodation is a two-way street, and if the rest of the World can't
> understand American reluctance to cut carbon emissions by 30% or American
> desires to build a missile defense as soon as we can develop the
> technology - then that two-way converstaion will remain incredibly difficult.
>
If the rest of the world talks us out of throwing our money away on this
idiotic enterprise (NMD) we'll owe them big time. And if they get us to
figure out ways to be more economical with the worlds resources, we'll owe
them even more.
Doug
