Report Re: Missile "Defence" From American Physical Society

Having a defence against the weaponry tyrannical dictatorships are striving to deploy is just common sense, one of the first responsibilities of government is to protect the citizenry. Technical difficulties will be overcome just as they have been for other new technologies, notwithstanding the predictions of pessimists. Credible scientists and engineers don't succumb to a challenge so easily.

Credible scientists and engineers try to make the world a better place to live in, not just for us but for everyone. If you are making weapons you are not making sense. You are not making the world safer for anyone, you are just making it more complicated and dangerous!

This missile defense scam is really a first strike weapon that would be used to strike first with. You don't have to hit the missiles in mid air you can hit them in the silos and submarines and planes before whoever is being attacked has time to say "Oh shit!"

You can hit so fast and so hard that there will be nothing left for the opposition to oppose. It is a tyrants "wet dream" and I hope thats as close to physical reality as it ever comes!

Tyrannical dictatorships deploy Terror weapons. These are fanatics who think pockets full of nails and a vest of TNT are a fashion statement.<p> Spaced based or land based missle systems won't stop a car full of fertilizer and diesel fuel.<p><p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain <br />
"The greatest price of not participating in politics is being governed by your inferiors." Plato

The U.S. could strike any country it wanted to right now with overwhelming force - why don't they do it now if that's their objective?

Terror tactics won't be stopped by space weapons, that's true. But it is also true that North Korea is developing the Taepong Dong missile system and exporting them to whomever. Iran has threatened to use nuclear weapons and Russia and China are both going through massive social/political upheavels the outcome of which is still far from certain. So the threat of an attack by nuclear missiles seems to have become more likely since the end of the Cold War rather than less likely as everyone seems to believe. A future U.S. President/Canadian Prime Minister could be put on the hot seat for not doing enough to defend the citizenry, but then it would be too late.
That being said, a nuclear missile attack appears unlikely and there's no reason to live in fear now.

The US is engaging in a classic example of one-upmanship. They don't want to destroy the world in a nuclear holocaust. But they do want the ability to invade countries at their own discretion. And the reason they need the "missile defense" is so that they can basically engage their entire military around the world without leaving themselves open to attack.

Also, the concept of a missile defense, if it were to work (which it won't), is that they can then use the threat of nuclear strikes without worry of direct retribution.

From the American perspective, it's brilliant, though. It's great for their economy, and it allows for their expansionist colonisation of most of the rest of the world. One country at a time, divide and conquer, etc. Anyone who denies that this is what the US is doing is either ignorant or lying.

If the US was trying to establish a more peaceful coexistence for the nations of this planet, it would adjust foreign policy to offend less countries instead of building weapons to offend MORE countries and ensure a new arms race. (But remember how good the arms race was for the economy).

The motives for military development are economic in nature. They are not to protect the citizens of America. They are not to save Iraqis or establish peace. They are to facilitate expansionism so that the very few can be ridiculously rich at the expense of the great majority, both globally and domestically. Remember: while thousands died in the 9/11 attacks, all the head honchos that work at the WTC and who RUN the WTC just "happened" to be away at a meeting together in one of the best-protected military bases in the US. They certainly don't spill their OWN blood for profit.

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Kory Yamashita

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

A launch from a space platform negates a response from whomever is hit if it is done right. The US administration has been on the prod for decades and now they want a first strike capability weapon. If you take out China's retaliatory nukes with your space based launch you can pick the rest of their defense systems apart at your leisure. Of course only madmen would even consider such a course and do you think the guy running the US is sane?

You can also hit selective targets with in any country and they also wouldn't know what hit them.

You are right though, it is an attempt to convert valuable resources into space kaka.

<p> When you said "Oh shit!" it reminded me of this gem: <a href="http://www.ebaumsworld.com/endofworld.html">http://www.ebaumsworld.com/endofworld.html</a> </p><p>---<br>Jesse <br />

Jesse, that is a good cartoon.