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To: combjelly who wrote (427054)	10/16/2008 10:39:24 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576180

Which is why we had WWIII... It worked. For good reason. It worked for a little while. We do not know what might have happened had Reagan not intervened. Had Jimmy Carter been re-elected in 80, for example. Let's remember that during the Carter years is when the issue of nuclear proliferation was a very big issue at the time. What is clear is that the trajectory we were on offered no hope for reducing, let alone eliminating, the threat of nuclear war. Only after Reagan took office with the determination of eliminating MAD was progress made. I cannot imagine that you believe, were we still pursuing a strategy based on MAD, that the world would be more secure today. It was, after all, Reagan's decision to walk away from MAD that ended the Soviet Union and massively reduced the threat of nuclear attack against us. And today, the outgrowth of SDI gives us real promise of security from even the crazies around the world. This is something that could NEVER have happened under MAD. I think this is one of those instances when you are taking an obviously backward position because it doesn't agree with your political ideology.