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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective

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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (9795)	7/26/2001 1:33:13 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (4) of 10042

You have actually made the best defense I have seen for missile defense. Let me see if I can restate the arguments. 1. An arms race is in our favor because we are far richer than anyone else, and with luck we can do to China what we did to the Soviet Union. You have a point here. A depressing point, but a point. 2. A missile defense system will work in our favor politically even if it never actually works. We just have to make it appear like it might work. Now this is an interesting argument. I'm not sure I buy it, but it gets me past the point that I always tripped over before -- I don't believe that a missile defense system can ever actually work. Hitting a bullet with a bullet is extremely difficult to begin with, and even if that was managed, it is no great trick to overwhelm a defense system with decoys. There is also a point that you didn't mention, but which I cynically believe looms largest in the Bush Administration's calculations: 3. A missile defense system funnels billions of dollars to our friends and contributors in the defense industry.

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