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To: stribe30 who wrote (130924)	1/29/2001 10:53:34 AM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571135

Dear Stribe: China and Russia have already enough to overwhelm the system. Their building of more does not increase their advantage. You can add to them, Britain, France, and of course, ourselves. So what? They know that an attack on us would generate a horrible response (one sub could take out 50% or more of China's population and blow the most heavily populated areas of Russia away) and is no different than right now. Since the others have very little in weapons or none at all, these are the ones targetted by the system. So your first argument is worthless. The second, is the point that even 33% chance of a good outcome is better than 0%. Especially, if the resulting damage runs into the hundreds of billions, not including any loss of life. And even that would reduce the chances of a success to smaller than before. That is just how reliable the system is in the first place. Besides, we are still in R&D. The two failures were traced to the kill unit and that is just the stand-in. Even the possibility that we are intentionally failing, will cause some worry about the chances of success. Who knows, a breakthrough can happen anytime and is much more likely if, sought after than not. The value of a missile defense system is that it is limited. The leaders in China and Russia value their lives, so MAD works. The leaders in some of these smaller countries, do not seem to care what happens to them or their people, and MAD fails. Missile defense is a large limit to these. Pete

To: stribe30 who wrote (130924)	1/29/2001 12:37:29 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1571135

Scott, with all due respect.. this is a simplistic notion... a) you're presuming missile defence will actually work.. last I saw.. it had failed on 2 out of 3 tests.. not exactly a re-assuring passing grade That reminds me of the old footage of various flying machines that people constructed, just about all of which failed to fly. dont expect Canada to be jumping on the bandwagon either I don't expect Canadians to jump on the bandwagon, but your present leader is smart enough not to stake out a position that looks like he is playing partisan games in the US politics. I would expect him to maintain a low profile on this issue. Joe