"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"HarryKrause" wrote in message
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The PRC is a far bigger threat to the existence of the United States
than Iraq, Iran, and Syria combined. But Bush isn't going to threaten
the PRC with a sword, because the Chinese would laugh at us.


The US could easily flatten China, but you'd be back to that old MAD
scenario. So unless George W can promise a quick trip to heaven and a
dozen
or so virgins per man..... it a no win situation.

SDI is our ace in the hole...and we're getting closer to perfecting it.
You are correct that the old MAD scenario will rear its ugly head
again...this time, with China. But if China is convinced that any ICBMs
launched at the US would be intercepted before they made landfall, they'd
be a lot more receptive to the threat of any military pressure from the
US.

Closer to perfecting? If you leave Boston, driving to Texas, and your car
dies and ends your trip just north of Hartford CT, yes, you are closer
than when you left Boston, but not enough to user the word "closer" with
any sense of celebration.

That's not an apt analogy. A better one would be:
You make a trip to Texas 8 different times. Two of those times, your car
dies somewhere in the midwest...and once, it once wouldn't start in the
driveway. The other 5 trips went just as planned. The missile defense tests
have hit their mark 5 out of 8 times. I'd say we're "closer to perfecting"
the system. I would estimate that before the end of Bush's second term,
we'll have at least some semblance of a working system in place.

What's happening now is nothing new. Didn't you follow the space program
before we successfully landed on the moon? Would you argue that with each
test...some successful, and some not...that we weren't any "closer to
perfecting" our ability to reach the moon?