I heard a strange rumor on the radio.. that the recent budget approved by the house included a request for the department of defense to research the possibility of using nuclear-tipped intercepters.<\/p>\n
This strikes me, if true, as not exactly the safest idea one could come up with.<\/p>\n
I mean, we’ve got rockets that _can not find their targets when they are carrying homing beacons_ – and now some crazy (word omitted) wants to strap BOMBS to them???<\/p>\n
I guess the theory is that if you make a big enough explosion, it won’t matter if you’re even remotely in the right neighborhood. Never mind what this does to the people under it. <\/p>\n
And, to be any good at all, a system like that has to be automated – or run by humans that are awake 24\/7 – and frankly I’m not sure which scares me more.<\/p>\n
Look, these are the people who spend a billion dollars on ‘stealth bombers’ to spy on the USSR. Like, duh, it’s cold and they’ve got no flipping money!<\/p>\n
I mean, how exactly was russia going to ‘take over’ the united states? How do you wipe the people off a country? People, have you ever driven across the US? I have, many times! It’s a BIG country! It CAN NOT BE taken over as long as it has good lines of communication. It doesn’t _need_ a standing army. It certainly doesn’t need 21,000 nuclear warheads. 21,000. THINK ABOUT THAT!<\/p>\n
As countries go, we’re assholes. Okay. There’s no other way to say it. Is that what we want to be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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