On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:30:28 -0700, Doug wrote:
> "John D. Giorgis" wrote:
>>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.
That's my biggest concern about this plan as well. It seems to me that any
"rogue nation" with someone in charge that has an IQ over room temperature
is unlikely to use a missile to deliver its nuclear payload. I am not
against us defending ourselves. Hell, I live here; I think it's a great
idea. :) But I also think that incidents like Oklahoma and the WTC bombing
have shown where the real danger lies.
Yes, a rogue nation could fire a missile at us, at the risk of being wiped
from the earth by our military after offering it as much resistance as BBQ
sauce gives a good wetnap. But if the nation in question has any sense of
self-preservation, a terroristic bombing just seems like a more likely
avenue. Granted, it's certainly possible that we would find out who did it
anyway, but firing a missile at us is an awfully public attack.
I would just like to see the money spent on defense of this nation going to
things that will actually, well, *defend* it.
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