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Politics : Is Secession Doable? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (1893)	12/17/2004 7:10:04 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1968

None of the proposed systems are useful for regional missiles. I never said the proposed systems where useful (or that they are not) I said missile defense is useful. In fact, any country that were to use nuclear weapons for any reason is likely going to have the US land on them like the proverbial ton of bricks. If India and Pakistan used nukes on each other we would land on both like a ton of bricks?? What if China nuked Taiwan, or for that matter attacked it conventionally with the threat that it would nuke anyone who interviened. Despite the fact that we could land on China like a ton of bricks (particularly with nukes) the threat is not something that we could ignore. Then you get things like the Iranians talking about who Iran could survive Israeli nukes but how one bomb could destroy Israel. This thought might be wrong (Iran might be pretty much destroyed) and right or wrong I don't think it likely that Iran would nuke Israel but the whole situation is one more argument for missile defense. Unless, of course, all of our military resources are tied up doing nation building across the Middle East... Less then 1/3rd of our land forces (army and marines) are in the Middle East. A lower percentage of our air and sea forces are there. Tim