Some time ago, I shared a travelling companion for a period of over 2 years. Every time we passed a certain building that had the following address in big huge numbers she would exclaim "two, five, four, four" until someone would go berko and ask her to stop. Sometimes she would stop, other times we just heard the wonderful soliloquy of.... "two, five, four, four, two, five, four, four........" I confess that I am very 2,5, four, foured when people whine about Dubya. It will be nice when he is finally out of office, so we can no longer hear about him and his failings. I nearly put down an article today, in the Canberra Times, because it appeared as just another rant by another columnist. However, it was good, and forms the thought du jour or kernel of this BS (blogspot.)
Ronald Reagan started program back in the eighties called Star Wars. It essentially is a missile defence shield. In short, if a long range missile is fired at the United States, it can be shot down before it reaches its intended target. Opponents don't like it because it may start another nuclear arms race. I don't read of any proponents other than the US government. The author in the Canberra Times, mentioned above, stated there is no reason for a program like this to commence because he feels it gives the US another weapon to play with, will potentially start another cold war and argues that the countries America is concerned with, Iran and North Korea, only have short range missles. "Dubya" a.k.a President George W Bush, practiced diplomacy this week with a President Putin. ( by the way AV, if Putin gives up power as he is scheduled to I don't know if we could really put him in our top ten diktators) Mr Putin was a master of diplomacy when after vigorously opposing the newly proposed Star Wars program he generously suggested that the Americans use his ( russia's) radar outpost as a means of monitoring potential threats. It would enable him to keep close watch on the program and being that he is a former KGB man......
I ask, do you support Star Wars? If not why not. I also ask if the US should not even look at this program until other countries develop long range tactical nukes? Would that be a good idea? Would I do that if I was head of the military? People say, that many inventions come about as an offshoot of military research. Could there be a possibility there would be a great and valuable invention other than destruction reaped from such research? Many questions. Many answers.
Finally, I have deleted one post, which I feel didn't quite belong here, and was a bit offensive. I am going to edit another post by the end of the week because...well I will explain later. We are in the mid nineties now, and maybe, with your help, we will do something different for the next one hundred. I am considering printing copies of our first one hundred, and the comments, binding it up into book so you can put it in your living room, and have a laugh. Would there be any interested?
3 comments:
Hey Chanks, I'm sure you all know that I don't understand a lot of what I read on this BS but I think I support the Star Wars program. Living in Canada, I hear so much resentment against the US and Dubya. All we need is for some warped dictator to get it in his/her head to put the USA in its place and we are in big trouble. Preparing for the future is a positive thing.
Does any of this make sense??
Oh, I will keep clicking.
AV
Just think for a second about the amount of money that would be spent on this Star Wars idea. Now think for a moment about the number of people that could potentially be saved by this Star Wars idea. Now think for another fraction of a second about the number of people whose lives could be helped in a far more tangible way if this same money was put into something like helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina or the homeless people in the nation, or researching the civil disorder between different racial groups that have deep-rooted hatreds of each other. I think Star Wars is a terrible idea. It is once again the government's way of trying to manipulate their citizens into supporting their government's usage of their hard-earned tax dollars for war efforts instead of really doing things to help their fellow citizens in need. But hey, people in government love their toys. Since the dawn of civilization, people have been duped by their governments into being pawns in an international game of "let's kill the bad guys" and killing all the wrong people. Why should it stop now?
So psam do you believe flying to the moon was a bad thing?
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