US missile defense shield test is succesful.

[Galen]

yea 2 for 4 and now the chinese and russians are climbing back in bed together. 1st time since 1950 between Stalin and Mao tse tung


"The document comes amid the two countries' mounting concern over American missile defense plans and their attempts to attract more nations into their own orbit."

 

[Badkins21]

I like what FrankRizzo said...I'd much rather have the freedom to give money for defense than have it stolen from me in the name of some outdated New Deal program that is in shambles anyway...

I hope this does start a new arms race, because we all know who will win...and when that happens, we'll be all-the-more-powerful!! Maybe we'll start colonizing...



America could be a great empire, if we'd just find the balls that have disappeared slowly over the last few decades, BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

(slightly joking, slightly NOT!)

 

[rmurf62]

a/ never gonna work;

b/too goddamn expensive;

c/if anybody wants to bomb a US city, they can bring a nuke in by truck, shipping crate or a damn canoe.

d/ the money we're wasting in this should go to real needs - military pay, education etc.

 

[Warik]

a/ never gonna work;

Yeah, and we'll never send men to the moon either. What kind of ridiculous idea is that? I bet the next thing you tell me is that we're going to shoot them up there in a big rocket or something.

b/too goddamn expensive;

I take it Social Security, Medicare, public education, and the investigation of Con-did-it is not "goddamn expensive?"

c/if anybody wants to bomb a US city, they can bring a nuke in by truck, shipping crate or a damn canoe.

You don't build a shield to protect you from a pebble. You build a shield to protect you from an avalanche. We're not only talking nukes here either.

The goal is that anything, in any quantity, on its way to the U.S. that we don't like will be destroyed. Security like that is "too goddamn expensive?" I'm sure the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki wish they had a president worried about such a "goddamn expensive" project.

d/ the money we're wasting in this should go to real needs - military pay, education etc.

Wrong.

The money we're wasting on social programs should go to military pay, education, and whatever is left should be pumped into "this."

-Warik

 

[Warik]

America could be a great empire, if we'd just find the balls that have disappeared slowly over the last few decades, BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

Agreed. I think "Planet America" would be more peaceful and cooperative than "Planet Earth." Unfortunately, we will have all of these human things still lying around, but at least they'll behave better.

-Warik