Posted on 01/29/2007 7:10:22 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Bully for them.
A dozen or two interceptors are no threat to the huge arsenals of the United States and Russia. However, if you're a North Korea or Iran, and you're struggling to build even a handful of intermediate or intercontinental range missiles... (hey, this is "rocket science") Then those relatively few interceptors effectively negate your arsenal.
If NoKorea was threatening to nuke Russia by flying missiles over the North Pole to Moscow, and offered to consult with us along the way about what they were doing, maybe not so bad.
Of course there are no real parallels between the US and the smoldering remnants of the USSR.
Man. getting sloppy in my old age.
Let me ask a stupid question. Why are we still defending the people of Europe? Most of them hate our guts.
Considering the financial, political and generally devastated condition of Russia today (basically run by the Russian mob), why are we overly concerned with them?
Even if we were in a “hair trigger” situation with Russia … what do they have to offer in the exchange. No Navy, Army or Air Force. Little to threat us with except threats.
Could induce NK to fire missiles at us … might make it 25 miles.
China, not ready to challenge the US (today).
The powers in the world also have to remember all the Nuke subs. we have all over the world … got to be uppermost in their minds.
They go … we go!
Why not just let the French handle it?
Rings of defense strategy. Basic defense 101. Set the first defense of our country in someone else’s country.
You would expect the French to help protect the world. LOL!
Russia isn't allied to Canada. The US did not side with Nazi Germany to occupy Canada.
lets put ICBMS in poland too, after all Russia is selling missiles to Iran a known axis state.
FTB
Yep. Go Bears.
Thank you for the ping.
I thought this over in MAY of 1999...and wrote THIS:
“The Giant sleeps on a full belly from a festive day at the fair and dreams of peaceful, sunny days. In the distance a caparisoned Bear jags to a jaunty jig, tinkling the bells of its shabby circus garb, reduced to dancing for the amusement of the town folk it once terrorized. Unaccustomed to its cage and civilized surroundings the bear strains at its muzzle and growls at its captors, longing for the wild and the only life it has known, killing when it is hungry and fearing no creature in the forest. The Bear’s lowing resembles distant thunder and the Giant fitfully becomes aware that there is some dark and foreboding thing impinging on its dreamscape from without. The Bear was captured by the Giant and contemplates how it might devour it, if only it could attack before it awakens. Sleepily the Giant responds to its atavistic instincts of survival, somehow subconsciously aware that danger is nearby. The Giant never considered the Bear’s escape.”
Wake up, America.
Screw russia. The are paranoid hypocritical lunatics. The have an anti-western alliance with China and Iran,and can not be trusted as long as they oppose the democratic civilized world.
Seeing as canada was never part of the US(or taken over like the soviets did eastern europe), and is a democracy and NATO/Norad member it would never happen. They dont trust the russians either.
"Washington wants to put an X-band radar in the Czech Republic and 10 interceptor missile launchers in Poland"
Lets call it the Patton System.
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