Russia and China join to condemn U.S. missile shield

[rogueyam]

Is this the thing Ron Reagan wanted?

 

He didn't just want it, he set out to build it. Now, twenty five years later, behold!

 

[Neo]

...the shield doesn't work...

 

You sound like quite the expert.

 

A study by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concluded that â??any country capable of deploying a long-range missile would also be able to deploy countermeasures that would defeat the planned missile defense system.â?Â

 

[rogueyam]

1)The vulnerabilities and limitations in the proposed shield are no secret.

 

2) It forces our friends to spend money making tit for tat upgrades to their offense to keep the balance level pegging.

 

3) The shield has more holes than swiss cheese and everyone knows it.

 

4) If there is any justice in the world, at least the counter measures are much cheaper to implement than the shield.

 

5) But collectively think how much money it saps out of the world collectively.

 

6) It is our standard of living that ultimately suffers.

 

1) Another expert.

 

2) It is not our friends doing this.

 

3) Again with the rocket science. Dazzling!

 

4) Mutually assured destruction is "justice"?

 

5) Money is not collective, comrade.

 

6) One ICBM can ruin your whole day.

[rogueyam]

A study by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concluded that â??any country capable of deploying a long-range missile would also be able to deploy countermeasures that would defeat the planned missile defense system.â?Â

 

UCS are hard-core leftists and that quote misses the point as it ignores costs.

[Hugh_Hoy]

Imagine where the US economy or military capability might be if money wasn't mismanaged like this. Our friends don't want this shield, our own people don't want this shield, the shield doesn't work, and yet for some reason we just have to have it for our own safety. Yet no one has ever fired, nor will they ever fire a ICBM with a perfect return address at us. A few joes can deliver the same thing loaded in a cheap vehicle. Or the way gas prices are going, by buffalo. I am afraid it will take something like this to make a laughing stock out of this farcical technology before people wake up.

 

Neo...where do you get off speaking for "our friends"?; and who are "we" who don't want a missile shield. The "shield" is in a very preliminary developmental stage. Nothing is perfect in it's infancy. However, as I recall, the last test over the Pacific Ocean went quite well...direct hit. This isn't an offensive weapon. It's a "defensive" counter-measure.

 

HH

 

[chuckwoww]

This isn't an offensive weapon. It's a "defensive" counter-measure.

 

HH

 

Of course it is Hugh. 'We' all know that. Trouble is the Russians and Chinese see it as a means to deliver a first strike without danger of retaliation.

 

[Bangkoktraveler]

rogueysm, are you telling me it is 'normal' for a person to defend themselves against peaceful neighbors in case they do something wrong?

[TheCorinthian]

 

If they threw in the towel, why do we need the shield?

 

 

Because the Russians and the Chinese picked it back up again.

 

(duh)

[TheCorinthian]

rogueysm, are you telling me it is 'normal' for a person to defend themselves against peaceful neighbors in case they do something wrong?

 

 

Isn't that why 50% or more of households have some sort of fence or alarm? Just in case the neighbors, or anyone else, goes crazy?

 

But we are speaking of nation states here, and nations go from peaceful to all out war at the drop of a hat. Especially if they at all think they can get away with it. So the term "peaceful neighbors" is lacking in historical or global perspective.

[Guest lazyphil]

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no because it doesn't work lol