'Star Wars':($1T)Pie inthe Sky(makes no sense financially or strategically

[papau]

In the age of U.S. preemption, the ability to strike the United States and its interests becomes the only deterrent against becoming another Iraq, as the $10 billion already spent on the untested antimissile program is just for symbolism, as we prepare to spend the "needed" $1 trillion.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-arkin15aug15.story
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'Star Wars':($1 T)Pie in the Sky(makes no sense financially or strategically)
The missile defense being set up makes no sense financially or strategically.
By William M. Arkin
William M. Arkin is a military affairs analyst who writes regularly for Opinion. E-mail: [e-mail].

August 15, 2004

SOUTH POMFRET, Vt. — This year, more than two decades after President Reagan delivered his "Star Wars" speech and initiated a crusade to protect America against missile attacks, the United States will finally deploy the first component of a national missile defense.

If ever there was a case of wasted defense spending, missile defense is it.

The idea of making the United States impervious to missile attack got its start in the years just before the Soviet Union began to totter. The end of the Cold War might have killed the idea but for an influential band of ideological true believers who kept it alive by reorienting the program toward the potential threat posed by such "rogue states" as North Korea, Iraq and Iran.

The events of Sept. 11, 2001, dealt what also could have been a mortal blow to the missile defense dream. Al Qaeda's attacks on New York and Washington led President Bush to change the fundamental paradigm of national security. No longer would the United States wait for terrorists or others to strike. Instead, it would act preemptively whenever a threat began to develop.

The United States would develop offensive capabilities to strike anywhere on the globe to counter the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. And the frontline of this active defense would be far "forward," meaning overseas. In other words, under the Bush Doctrine, the U.S. would intervene militarily long before any potentially hostile regime could develop missiles or other weapons capable of reaching American soil.

So it might seem a little strange that — on July 22 — the first 55-foot-long antimissile missile was placed in an underground silo in the foothills of an Alaskan range 107 miles southeast of Fairbanks. Seemingly stranger still, the Bush administration acted as if the U.S. had deployed something that was as workable, innocuous, consistent with its policy and necessary as air bags on automobiles.<snip>

[tom_paine]

1. What does finacial or strategic sense have to do with Imperial Amerika

Nothing.

Imperial Amerika, a Totalitarian Third-World Nation like the Soviet Union before it, is all about Fraud, Theft, and Lies.

Whatever LIES are told is in the service of Imperial Fraud and Theft and therefore, by Decree of the State Controlled Media, makes PERFECT SENSE.

You gotta problem with that? Then find your own way to communicate with millions at a time.

Imperial Amerika is now one big Blow Job, and the Imperial Family is giving us a little somethinmg to swallow.

Star Wars will continue, it's value IS as Expensive Fraud (which leads to some Imperial Theft)

[papau]

2. Ok - but a $1 trillion waste must open "some" GOP eyes - I hope

:-)

[tom_paine]

3. Would it have opened Nazi Eyes

The Bushpublican Party and the Nazis have very much in common temprement, hatred of liberals, so much more.

If Nazi Eyes were opened they knew enough not to say it aloud.

Getting closer to that here in the Empire, every single day.

[Fovea]

4. I wrote a LTTE in the 80's

where I called SDI 'The Maginot Line In Space'
Nothing I said then is less true today.
If a nuke is popped in the US, it will not ride an ICBM.
It will ride a ryder rental truck.