Re: "Star Wars" (was Re: Yet Another Reason for the World...)

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On Tuesday 10 June 2003 03:14 pm, Daniel Cassidy wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 June 2003 1:19 am, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> > > Right now, according to the opinion of most of the world, the rogue
> > > nations are the US and Britain, unfortunately.  So let's imagine they
> > > start to build a space weapon system . . . errrh . . . lets see now . .
> > > . errrhhh . . . never mind.
> >
> >    Yes, yes, the terrible US and Britain the oppress the world and do
> > evil everywhere.[*]
>
> But answer the point. Or consider from an alternative point of view. Let's
> imagine France and Germany are developing technology to gain control of
> space and to deny use of space to other countries without Franco-German
> consent. What would your opinion be of this? I notice that you have
> conveniently failed to respond to Dre's similar examples, possibly because
> they require you to think about an alternative point of view.

  Well, I would speculate that any country in a lesser position in a 
particular way, the U.S. included, would be unhappy -- okay, very unhappy -- 
about it, unless the country with superior fire power was a very close ally. 
This can't stop weapons development by itself however. I'm sure some of our 
allies wouldn't have been happy about us having Hydrogen bombs, after all, 
they weren't needed... yet we spent much of the cold war era continuing to 
enhance that and many other weapons. 

  That did have some bad side effects, such as many other countries developing 
similar programs, but the sheer power of these weapons has in itself kept 
things in check thus far.

   -Tim

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