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Originally posted by Daradon@Dec 16 2004, 10:37 PM
I don't know, I don't see this EVER being a feasible technology. As fast as they make the defense better, there will be new countermeasures. THey can't even shoot down ONE missile with any encouraging percentage of success yet. Never mind a war with multiple missiles, ICBM's rapid fire missiles shot from space (forget what these are called, course it could be argued the U.S. is the only real country able to afford this), missiles with any number of type of cheap decoys. And it doesn't protect against anything snuck into the country, which make my words, is how it will happen if it does. Maybe not a nuke, but a biological weapon then.
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Bleh, I don't know when it comes to this. Sometimes I use 'maybe it'll be wise in the future' and sometimes I use 'it'll be a wise investment for the future.' I guess when you really think about it, if someone is really that angry at America then they will find a way through the system (which right now seems to be about as complex as launching one missile at America and knowing the Defence Shield will take care of screwing itself up).
At the same time, though, if the technology down the road is actually there to set up a Missile Defence shield that actually works, then why not? Every once in awhile some crazy loon that hates America and the rest of the Western World seems to get control of a country. What's to prevent this person from launching a bunch of nukes at America knowing full well they will be nuked into oblivion in return, but not caring? Right now not many countries can actually launch an ICBM that'll hit America but in the future, who really knows?
Of course, I will always think that the real threat will be nukes and bio-weapons
smuggled into the country as they are cheaper and easier to deploy. So in order to fund a system like the Missle Defence Shield you either gotta take away money from defending against the threat of internal weapons or create more debt. Neither choice is good it would seem.
Perhaps all the orange and red alerts for terrorism we see every week are starting to make me paranoid... That's probably it actually... I go sleep now...