01-16-2004, 11:28 PM
1. Expense versus pay off versus "likelihood" that some one would launch by surprise.
2. Bilateral ABM treaty model, now defunct, founded on a complex series of agreements, bluffs, and understandings between USSR and US. The trust established between US and USSR over 40 years that allowed eventual, substantive and verifiable disarmament action is nowhere in evidence with the nations about whom a defensive missile system is set up against, nor is the bilateral model anywhere in evidence now or in the future.
Hell, you can't even get any number of nations to sign up for and comply with far simpler mutual security and weapons limitations treaties. A new ABM Treaty is a chimera you cannot count on to protect you from attack.
The mutual "trust" is not there.
2. Bilateral ABM treaty model, now defunct, founded on a complex series of agreements, bluffs, and understandings between USSR and US. The trust established between US and USSR over 40 years that allowed eventual, substantive and verifiable disarmament action is nowhere in evidence with the nations about whom a defensive missile system is set up against, nor is the bilateral model anywhere in evidence now or in the future.
Hell, you can't even get any number of nations to sign up for and comply with far simpler mutual security and weapons limitations treaties. A new ABM Treaty is a chimera you cannot count on to protect you from attack.
The mutual "trust" is not there.
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete