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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KLP who wrote (3944)	2/2/2001 1:10:47 AM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 59480

KLP: I think spending billions of dollars on a national missile defense system is a big, big mistake. (Think Maginot Line.) My solution is to use some of the money to upgrade other areas of the military ... assuming they need upgrading. There's no guarantee such a missile-defense system would ever work. It's 10 percent fact and 90 percent science fiction. Sufficient deterrent exists in the form of U.S. submarines carrying nuclear missiles, combined with land-based bombers. (One of our missile-carrying subs possesses more firepower than all the bombs dropped in WWII. Think about that.) As soon as we devise a missile-defense system, what's to stop an attacking nation from developing technology to counter our missile-defense system? Hell, Microsoft can't even keep teen-age hackers from screwing with its system on a regular basis. Result: We will put false hope in this system, as the French did in the Maginot Line in the late '30s. A trillion-dollar missile-defense system wouldn't stop a terrorist from renting a truck in Toronto, loading it up with biological weapons, and driving to any number of major cities within a 24-hour period. The price tag to develop such a system is outrageous. Reagan ... Clinton ... Bush Sr. ... Bush Jr. ... doesn't matter under whose watch this folly is being pursued. What did Washington and Ike warn about military-industrial complexes? Better to use this Star Wars money to fix our schools, improve our veterans hospitals, save more of our wilderness from suburban sprawl. Hell, if nothing else, send the money back to the taxpayers. When's the last time this country was attacked? War of 1812?