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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (176909)	9/2/2001 9:48:10 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 769668

Expect the Chinese to believe we're building a 100 billion dollar system to defend ourselves from pint-sized enemies like North Korea and "errant missiles"? They're not stupid. They'll suddenly be worried we're planning some offensive attack and start building bigger smarter missile systems or their own Star Wars system. They'll also try and steal out technology and they have so many moles inside our high-tech companies they may just succeed. Not to be anti-Asian but I was once at the engineering library at UCLA on a Saturday night. 100% of some 50 kids there working while everyone was partying were Asian, and I don't mean American Asians I mean foreign students. And how can we possibly keep track of them all? Some of them are going to be spies. So we build this 100+ billion system, it doesn't work right anyway, then the Chinese steal its secrets for free and develop their own system to defend themselves against us. So it's a big waste of money and a big arms race just to get back to where we began. There is simply no way we can expect other countries not to compensate for our Star Wars. We can be ahead in the race, but why start the race at all? Could be the biggest boondoggle of all time and a total waste of tax-payers money.