Re: Whats nasa thinking

From: Jorge R. Frank (jrfrank_at_ibm-pc.borg)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 07:52:44 -0500

hallerb@aol.com (bob haller) wrote in
news:20040830074929.15406.00000004@mb-m04.aol.com:

>>Of course not. Now, explain to us why you advocated sending that same
>>country billions of dollars in your post less than 24 hours ago.
>>
>>Hypocrisy, thy name is Bob Haller!
>
> Np simply put we pay them to behave themselves.

In other words, you would return to the failed policy of 1994-2000, except
you'd throw even more money into it.

No thanks, Bob. Most of us learned our lesson the first time around, even
if you didn't.

> we do this all the
> time using $ to encourage certain behavior.
>
> within the country.... any state that doiesnt lower their maximum
> speed to 55 will loose federal road funds. circa the first energy
> crisis early 70s.

And that works because the federal government is sovereign over the states.
Russia is a sovereign government. They aren't bound to stop selling to Iran
just because we give them more money. If history is any guide, they will
continue to do so partly as an *assertion* of their sovereignty.

> Part of the purpose of ISS was to keep russians busy doing something
> with purpose rather than building bombs....

And it *didn't* *work*, hence the unanimous passage of the Iran
Nonproliferation Act of 2000. 

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