Big, Big Mistake, GW

[Fairweather]

This is really fucked up. I understand why the Rooskies are pissed. Too bad, because we could have been allies.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6658633.stm

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The US wants 10 interceptor rockets there to destroy any long-range ballistic missiles fired at the US from the Middle East

 

Honestly, I don't think any middle eastern country has or ever will have the capability to build/import a missile of that size. Iran maybe but that is still a long ways off. The best anyone in that region has been able to do is hit their immediate neighbors.

[Dave_Schuldt]

Got to keep those defense contractors happy.

WHAT A FUCKING WASTE!

[Alpinfox]

This is really fucked up. I understand why the Rooskies are pissed. Too bad, because we could have been allies.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6658633.stm

 

And this is how the US delivered the news:

 

"HAHAHA FUCK YOU we are going to build a missile defense system and there is nothing you can do about it! HAHAHA!"

[Dechristo]

I heard on the radio, today, in the latest Gallup poll, GW has an approval rate of 33%.

 

The U.S. Congress approval rate is at 29%.

[sk]

are they starting the cold war again??

 

i don't want to read the article

[catbirdseat]

So is mutually assured destruction something that doesn't work with respect to the middle east? They could destroy a city but we could obliterate an entire country.

 

Is the idea that the islamist fanatics would get their hands on a government missile and launch it without regard for their lives? I don't get it?

[Dechristo]

Is the idea that the islamist fanatics would get their hands on a government missile and launch it without regard for their lives? I don't get it?

 

They do it on a smaller scale everyday, as it is.

[Fairweather]

So is mutually assured destruction something that doesn't work with respect to the middle east? They could destroy a city but we could obliterate an entire country.

 

Is the idea that the islamist fanatics would get their hands on a government missile and launch it without regard for their lives? I don't get it?

 

Sooner or later you have to hold the "host" country responsible, and that involves killing a lot of innocent people. There really is no other way...except preemption. I guess MAD would work if we held the country of the weapon's origin responsible and publicized this doctrine in advance.

 

This whole missile defense shit seems valid over the Pacific, but placing these batteries in former Soviet Bloc nations is unnecessarily provocative and, frankly, insulting to a Russian nation that not too long ago threw off the yoke of communism in the hopes it would be treated with respect. Besides, if a nuke attack ever comes from the middle east it seems more likely it will arrive in a shipping container.

[JosephH]

They don't work. They will never work. It is a ridiculous piece of fiction. It was ridiculous fiction in 1985, it was ridiculous fiction in 2005, it will always be fiction. There is no technical basis for it ever working. Countering even a hypothetically 'perfect' system is utterly simple and requires next to no cost compared to an obscene amount of money for a system whose 'operational' capabilities will never be more than an expensive, 'feel good' illusion.