preslove
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- Sep 10, 2003
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Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
Originally posted by: preslove
Originally posted by: Jaskalas
Originally posted by: preslove
Originally posted by: Drift3r
That missile defense program will stop then next 9/11 from happening again. /sarcasm off
QFT!
You have to be a complete moron to support missile defense. Terrorists can't afford & don't need ICMB's.
That must be why Iran and rogue nations like it are building exactly that.
No, they are not. Iran does not, and will not have any missile that can hit the US. You do understand what an ICBM is, right? See my first sentence.
No one is crazy enough to send a missile at the US. That would just invite obliteration (to borrow a term from Hillary). The real threat comes from terrorism, which requires a totally different set of tools. It is easier to smuggle a weapon into the US.
Again, ABM counters a threat that doesn't exist.
You do realise the same thing you are arguing against is what gives you the ability to say that, right?
No.
The reason I can argue that is because NORAD is under a freaking mountain, and because we have Ohio-class submarines.
The US could be effectively destroyed by a preemtive nuclear attack by russia or china & we could still retaliate with enough firepower to "obliterate (thanks hillary)" them.
This is why the term is called MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). It is insane to start a conventional nuclear war. MAD is what has prevented the use of nuclear weapons in anger since Nagasaki, not missile defense :roll:
