Just because President Bush abrogated the ABM Treaty does not mean there will be an arms race. For one, the Russians are no longer the USSR and they don’t have the money, and with our present fiscal problems this should not be very high on the priority list.
Remember, it was not an ICBM that took down the Twin Towers. If someone had used a rocket, its launch site, throw weight and destination would have been known in minutes. Only political blindness would keep someone from understanding that the planners of our arch enemies, such as North Korea, Iraq, et al, know that firing a multi-million dollar rocket leaves them with a bulls-eye on their shirt, but shipping a container, hijacking a plane, carrying a suitcase or mailing a latter are anonymous and much cheaper, but no less deadly.
Yet the administration insists on pouring billions of our dollars into technology we don’t need. This rocket-born tax-sucking program is being promoted by top presidential advisor Richard Perle, who, while in the Reagan administration, helped give birth to the Strategic Defense Initiative as the ultimate in big-stick diplomacy. But in reality it is just “Star Wars.”
I would hope that Sept. 11 opened the eyes of Americans to reality, not reaction. Why would any of the governments named by the administration as a possible terrorist fire a rocket knowing the consequences? If Libya fired one, the next day it would be a big hole in the desert with a pool of oil at the bottom. They know this and that is why they have shown us their battlefield of the future. This SDI garbage is just a political pay-back to the far right and hi-tech industry. It’s your money, think about it.
Snohomish
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