John F. Kerry

honestly effective missle defense is an essential I Repeat ESSENTIAL element of a future world free of nuclear weapons -

this isnt about america and russia- its about every country wanting to get their hands on some kind of nuke or nuclear power to feel powerful... if we have a system that can make if far far more dificult for these rogue third world countries to build a sophisticated enough weapon to evade missle defence systems AND go long distances And explode right and everything else- and get enough radioactive material as well- then it would make it much easier for the big countries to contemplate giving up most or all of their nukes- if they knew that iran or pakistan could end up building a nuclear icbm and blackmailing others with it- because a sophisticated missle shield will protect against it- whats the better idea- to hope everyone will just be good and not follow the rules of self interst that govern nations and try to outdo the others unless the can be STOPPED with a DEFENSE that can protect and do nothing else. the russians liked their ABMs to an umbrella- what could be wrong with an umbrella? when it rains u simlpy open it up .

it doenst work in the cold war MAD world- but today or at least in the near to mid future, it is a brilliant idea and we should be devoting huge amounts of money and hiring milliosn of people to work on it- its MOONSHOT time.


i guess obama says hes still for missle defesne so we'll have to see- but as to the questtion of giving up something for nothing- i still think it was pretty amatureish . Os still got some learnin to do.

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