Re: "Star Wars" (was Re: Yet Another Reason for the World...)
Daniel Cassidy <[email protected]>
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On Monday 9 June 2003 11:54 pm, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > 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. You make the wild assumption that the weapons will never be misused. -- dan "Were i susceptible to having my mind changed, it would have changed my mind" - Matthew Parris 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.