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To: American Spirit who wrote (159417)	1/30/2003 9:35:06 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583806

You dont fund production of a product before you know it works We KNOW it works. The question is how well. I can't think of a single significant military project that wasn't deployed before it was perfected. Not one. Just last year we deployed the first Global Hawks in Afghanistan. Both crashed. But their deployment was a total, glowing success for the future of air warfare. The problem here is you are using tunnel vision. Our military has been gutted over the term of the Clinton administration, so we are going to spend more money. Given that, what WOULD you have us spend it on?

To: American Spirit who wrote (159417)	1/30/2003 9:40:42 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583806

Just as speculative a threat as "maybe Saddam will team with Al Qaida". North Korea is a real threat to South Korea, our troops there and themselves. That's about it. 1 - When you are talking about nuclear weapons you have to be prepared to deal with speculative threats. Esp. when it take a long time to build an effective defense. 2 - Its a lot more likely then Saddam and Al Qaida teaming up. The odds of new countries getting long range missiles over the next couple of decades closely approaches 100%. 3 - A threat to South Korea and our troops is a threat we have to deal with, also their missles can reach further then to just South Korea. They could hit a big chunk of Asia. 4 - The threat from Russian and Chinese ICBMs is not speculative. __________ SDI needed a lot more testing. You dont fund production of a product before you know it works. Just lousy business sense. A lot of the testing will have to be done on fully integrated systems. We have to build a rudimentary defense system to test defense systems. Tim