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To: Robert Salasidis who wrote (139520)	10/2/2001 7:57:31 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580472

There are multiple examples where defense spending has lead to other benefits that were not foreseen at the time. Back when SDI was first proposed, liberals such as Carl Sagan were all over Nightline talking about its infeasibility -- "we simply don't have the technology to do it". DUH. Of course we don't, idiots! We have to develop the technology. But I never quite understood how such supposed "intellectuals" could be so blind to our technological achievements. Jeez, did they not ever see a pocket calculator (for those in Palm Springs, before pocket calculators we did arithmetic with pencil and paper). There is simply no logic to the argument against SDI; there can be no effective argument against it because it is an inherently sensible approach to war. In its infancy (i.e., at the time of the Gulf War) there is little doubt that these technologies saved substantial numbers of lives. This was a product (the Patriot) that was pieced together on the fly with numerous last minute software modifications. The liberals who are now denouncing SDI are the same group of people who were in a panic about nuclear proliferation before Reagan. Apparently, they are too simple-minded to see that the strength afforded the United States by SDI and the defense buildup was what brought about the end of the Cold War. These technologies take not years but decades to develop. Unfortunately, some people are so short-sighted that they would try to deprive those of us who can see the benefits of these technologies from the protections afforded us thereby.