[net.politics] SDI: 95% isn't the point: re to Sevener

js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) (03/24/86)

> >Even according to Start Wars advocates like Lt. Gen Abrahamson,
> >stopping 95% of *current* Soviet warheads is the *best* Start Wars
> >can be expected to achieve.  What does this mean?
> >It should be quite obvious than any dreams that Start Wars can
> >somehow "defend our population" is simply that : a dream
> >on the order of saying we could put a man in the Alpha Centauri
> >system by the Year 2000!
> >          tim sevener   whuxn!orb
> 
> Also, you continually refer to it as "Start Wars".  This seems to me like
> name calling and nothing else.  Even if you do believe that SDI will start
> wars, calling it "Start Wars" is like calling a fetus "she" in net.abortion,
> or referring to all liberals as pinkos.

    Not quite.  A random fetus may not be a "she", and many liberals probably
*aren't* pinko's, but if SDI works, it probably *will*  'start wars'.
> Kenneth Arromdee
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Jeff Sonntag
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