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To: tejek who wrote (129971)	12/20/2000 4:57:45 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570744

RE:"Who is the evil foe that's going to attack us....Estonia? I heard they had major missle silos outside of Tallin. I mean, give a break; we rule the world, its ours for the taking." You just don't know but I'd say the odds of terrorist attacks vis a vie transporting a device via sea or land into the USA are much better than missile attack. RE:"To spend billions on more defense is ludicrous imo." Kind of a broad statement. Might take some more money but the term "shoring up" is more what I'd like to see. Jim

To: tejek who wrote (129971)	12/20/2000 5:22:50 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570744

To spend billions on more defense is ludicrous imo. As far as the ballistic missile defense spending less then a quarter of a percent of our GDP to make sure that the Chinese or North Koreans can't incinerate the San Francisco bay area, or turn LA into a large fireball it not imo ludicrous. If it helps, look at it as protecting the environment of California. More generally if we are going to have our current level of military involvement throughout the world we do need to spend some more money. It could be argued that we should instead cut back on our overseas deployments and commitments. Would you support such a move? Tim

To: tejek who wrote (129971)	12/21/2000 9:36:31 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570744

"To spend billions on more defense is ludicrous imo" Not really. While I agree with you that being concerned over a ballistic attack is really sort of silly, smuggled in satchel nukes and biological and chemical weapons seems to be a bigger concern, it is fine with me for them to do the research and prototyping of missile defenses. Think about it, big lasers, techniques for tracking multiple objects, sensors and so on have lots of other uses... Now anything beyond a small deployment needs to be talked over.