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To: zarf

zarf, I've seen this talking point a few times, and I have a question: Without regard to whether or not we should have bunker-busting nukes - how is it "unilaterally disarming" to say you won't continue to develop a weapon that (1) we don't have and (2) no one else has?


59 posted on 10/01/2004 7:46:31 AM PDT by lugsoul (Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside.)
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To: lugsoul
(1) we don't have

We are developing it and development is as good as having it when it comes to the way our enemies behave.

A weapon such as this one is critical to maintaining our qualitative edge into the next century.

(2) no one else has?

This is a counter weapon, it's not an offensive weapon. To give it up (without even a treaty) enhances the offensive capabilities of our opponents.....IMHO that's unilaterally disarming.

65 posted on 10/01/2004 8:35:59 AM PDT by zarf
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