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Originally posted by Spanky
Every proposal for research and spending on missile defense should get 100 percent vote of the house and senate. Anyone that is against spending on SDI, or wants to reduce, is a moron. Plain and simple.
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I am 100% behind the concept of missle defense, but this position is ridiculous. Unless you are willing to see 100% of the budget go to missle defense, you are implicitly acknowledging that there are limits on the amount we can spend on this. Unfortunately, those seeking funds are not always doing so out of the goodness of their hearts. There are some programs that deserve to continue to be funded. There are others that do not, but they are so entrenched in the DC scene that it becomes very difficult to stop, so we end up throwing good money after bad.
By the same token, those on the left the chide the concept each and every time that there is a failed test are extremely short sided. We will have the technology at some point, probably fairly soon, and that will be a good thing for all of us.
That said, missle defense is not the be all end all, especially in an era of nonconventional warfare. At the present point in time, I am far more concerned about bio and techno warfare than I am about nuclear. NK is not going to bomb us, because that is not in their interest. Neither is Iran. They have developed nukes as a defensive measure because mutual assured destruction is still a valid theory.
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