Re: Final destinations in space

On 27 Jan 2006 05:57:16 -0800, raphfrk@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote, in part:
>Monte Davis wrote:
>> royls@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>> >Uh, it happened, just over 60 years ago.

>> And lasted four years...

>Because the US didn't have the desire to lay waste to all of its
>potential enemies. In the future the benefit of such a breakthrough
>might be larger and perhaps the inventing nation would be less rights
>respecting.

It would have been a *good* thing for the people of Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and various other countries if the United
States had recognized the true nature of the Soviet Union immediately
after World War II, and laid preparations to ensure that it could
respond in force if any dictatorship attempted to obtain nuclear
weapons.

This missed opportunity led millions of people to spend their whole
lives under Russian puppet regimes in Eastern Europe and the Captive
Nations.

And the nuclear stalemate also emboldened many other dictators, from Idi
Amin and Gowon to those who attacked Israel and seized oil concessions
in the Middle East.

At least today we're not apathetic concerning the prospect of Iran
getting a nuclear capability.

John Savard
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