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

To: PartyTime who wrote (528359)	1/23/2004 4:05:56 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Should I be tactful here? Nah, why break a perfect record? That is, if the USA comes to terms with all the rogue states of the world who were aligned with Moscow or Beijing in the Cold War, there would no enemies to guard against or to defeat if they were deemed imminent threats. Public support for defense spending would dry up and the Pentagon would wind up living on crumbs, as it was in the 1930's.<<< The implication of that- -that the US should unilaterally disarm- -is quite possibly the stupidest proposal I have seen in several decades. Do you think all those Russian nuclear warheads just evaporated in 1989? Or that the Russian fleet ballistic missile submarines all sank? The Russians still posses at least 3,000 nuclear warheads. cdi.org Other sources give larger numbers, up to about 12,000. The US has been referred to as "the sole remaining superpower". If YOUR idea is implemented, RUSSIA becomes "the sole remaining superpower". And have you forgotten the Chinese have nuclear warheads? That North Korea, run by a man who may well be insane, also does and has missiles that can hit the US? The FROGS could blackmail us, ferchrissakes! Are you out of your mind? Get a grip, boy!