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Another Promise that Expires on 1/20/09?; Missile defense
Topic Started: Nov 17 2008, 11:10 AM (87 Views)
George K
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Finally
Remember this?

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"I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.
I will not weaponize space."


Not so fast...

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Missile-defense skeptics yearning for a fresh look at the wisdom of pumping $10 billion annually into missile defense aren’t going to get it from Barack Obama when he moves into the Oval Office. The Russians — along with the two men most likely to end up running the Pentagon for the President-elect — have already made sure of that. It’s a bracing reminder of just how difficult it is to counter momentum once a big-league defense program achieves what aerodynamicists call “escape velocity” — that synergy of speed and gravity that lets a vehicle soar smoothly into the skies. …

If Obama keeps Defense Secretary Robert Gates on, as some advisers are arguing he should, that would come as no surprise. “Russia has nothing to fear from a defensive missile shield,” Gates said Thursday as he argued for extending the system to Europe. The current plan is to place 10 missile interceptors in Poland and a missile-tracking radar in the Czech Republic by 2014. It’s strongly opposed by Russia, which views it as an unwelcome military threat in a region where it has always been pre-eminent. The other leading contender for the Pentagon post is Richard Danzig, a Clinton Navy secretary, who recently told reporters that the Obama team has “a strong view that national missile defense is a rewarding area and should be invested in.”


Change....d my mind.



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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
:sing:
I still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets
Every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes ..........
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The dogma lives loudly within me.
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JBryan
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I am the grey one
If this guy is going to end up governing like Bush or Reagan I sure won't have a problem with it but a lot of the people who voted for him will be furious.
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There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

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QuirtEvans
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JBryan
Nov 17 2008, 01:08 PM
If this guy is going to end up governing like Bush or Reagan I sure won't have a problem with it but a lot of the people who voted for him will be furious.
Nah, I won't be furious.

Oops, sorry, I didn't vote for him.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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George K
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Har dee har har.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles.
- Klaus, 4/29/18
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Mikhailoh
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That would be the best possible outcome.

'Make it so.'

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JBryan
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QuirtEvans
Nov 17 2008, 01:12 PM
JBryan
Nov 17 2008, 01:08 PM
If this guy is going to end up governing like Bush or Reagan I sure won't have a problem with it but a lot of the people who voted for him will be furious.
Nah, I won't be furious.

Oops, sorry, I didn't vote for him.
You will be furious anyway.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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QuirtEvans
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JBryan
Nov 17 2008, 05:37 PM
QuirtEvans
Nov 17 2008, 01:12 PM
JBryan
Nov 17 2008, 01:08 PM
If this guy is going to end up governing like Bush or Reagan I sure won't have a problem with it but a lot of the people who voted for him will be furious.
Nah, I won't be furious.

Oops, sorry, I didn't vote for him.
You will be furious anyway.
In general, or about this?
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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