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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:10 am Post subject: ... |
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Pliggan,
There is a popular notion that the world survived the Cold War because of MAD-Mutually Assured Destruction.
While the TMD system was being touted as defense against a rogue launch, logic only follows that, given time and research, it could and would eventually be expanded to cover more.
Nations all over the world opposed this because they believed it would lead to a new arms race. IMO, rightly so.
As such, this affects every country concerned about nuclear stabilityin the world, which should ideally be all of them.
In particular, TMD encourages the building of more nukes, which flies in the face of notions of disarmament.
Rationally, disarmament should be paramount. |
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Alias
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 6:19 am Post subject: |
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| As for Canada, most people were opposed to it. |
Cool. You didn't support it. There is nothing at all in current missile defense plans that has anything at all to do with Canada.
Now, as it stands, why do you care? Is it only a source to rant against the U.S.? |
Umm I was responding to the articles notion that the Canadian government did not support BMD because it was "insensitive to US security needs".
The other point was that the author claimed that most leftists in the US have given up on opposing BMD. I believe this to be incorrect.
No rant here. Not sure where that accusation comes from. |
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