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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Zoltan! who wrote (10153)4/1/2001 10:19:58 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Accurate targeting is not necessary for a deterrent force, and there is no reason to think that the Chinese have ever sought a first strike capability (unlike us). My memory of the Cox report (and it's been a while) is that the Chinese program was focused mainly on developing small warheads that would allow the deployment of mobile ICBMs. The only reason for mobility in an ICBM force is to protect missiles against a first strike and maintain a deterrent capacity with a relatively small missile force.

I know the rhetoric is very satisfying, but China simply does not pose a significant nuclear or conventional threat to the US. Russia, with its larger missile force and serious political instability, is a much greater danger.

Do you honestly believe that Clinton is the only President ever to twist policy to please contributors to campaigns and other favored causes? My guess is that the only President of the last 50 years who didn't was Jimmy Carter, and I'm not 100% sure even of that. Weren't you around when the Reagan administration was handing out free passes to drug dealers who were useful in the Crusade Against Communism?

This is simply typical politician behaviour; it has changed very little over the past 200 years and I don't expect it to change in the future. Power corrupts, and the corrupt are drawn to power like flies to shit.
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