"Star Wars" (was Re: Yet Another Reason for the World...)
"Timothy R. Butler" <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > As much disrespect as I have of the Bush Administration, their profound > stupidity - from the point of view of US interests and preserving world > peace - never ceases to amaze me. Of course, the article makes the situation sound a lot more negative than it actually may be. Sure the U.S. is going to try to stop anyone else from using space weapons, just like we try to stop people from using Nukes. The point is, and I think the DoD sees this, is that having the technology is itself a deterent for others considering doing the same. Example: say a rogue nation (say N. Korea) wants to gain an advantage. If the U.S. has ignored the potential space weapons possiblities, they could surprise us and gain a strategic advantage. By us developing them, and assumedly not using them, since we wouldn't have anyone to use them against anyway, we encourage other nations not create space weapons programs. U.S. weapontry should always be the best and most powerful possible -- not that we should use all of the weapons, but putting our heads in the sand and making less powerful weapons to be "nice" is dangerous. Creating space weapons might not mean we would use them, but we would have them if they were needed. -Tim - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks www.uninet.info ==================== <[email protected]> ==================== | Christian Portal: | Have you not learned great lessons | | www.faithtree.com | from those who braced themselves | | GNU/Linux News: | against you and disputed the | | www.ofb.biz | passage with you? --Walt Whitman | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+5RAhK37Cns9gJ0gRAn6YAJ9A/FNU65T+k+veujgI+ehxip5dgACgguQ0 GLaYyCxHZZPJj8gkvJsi3V4= =dD/3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.