Letters to the Editor
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@Paul Daniel Ash
If you think the shootdown of the satellite, by a missile launched from a navy ship, is the sole indicator of our developing anti-missile technology. Think again.
There are enough pieces to this puzzle in the public domain to allow one to see that our ability to counter missiles is growing.
I acknowledge Reagan, among others (usually castigated by the left), for promoting that growth.
Here's one example:
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/abl/
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Gullibility
More than anything else, I believe, the neocon is defined by his gullibility. Hilariously, they believed CIA disinformation that the USSR owned a terror network.
Now they believe that an antimissile system that doesn't work is a stroke of brilliance.
Knob will simply believe ANYTHING they tell him.
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Funny
Iran's "Space Missile?" Yawn, It's a SCUD
By Noah Shachtman February 26, 2007 | 2:03:25 PMCategories: Mullah Menace, Space
Haninah Levine is a science fellow at the Center for Defense Information, specializing in nuclear weapons, missile defense, energy security and technology adoption....
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/02/irans_new_space.html
Norbit,
We should be more concerned with watching the ports than the skies. And I wouldnt put too much stock in missile defense systems yet. OTOH, I am certainly not opposed to the R&D.
It's one thing to knock down an sat with a well known and steady orbit. It's another matter to knock down a missile on a supposed trajectory you have just computed in a matter of seconds.
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I'll bet that was
a geosynchonous orbit, too, Norbit.
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I need a new
kybrd
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Thank you for telling us...... Sahib. Perhaps you should put your pith helmet back on now.
....I would weigh carefully the advantages of deflecting internal dissatisfaction away to "Those Evil Joooz" (or any other foreigner for if nothing else Iranians are a proud, nationalistic and vaguely xenophobic group) against the downside of threatening to start an atomic war in the region, what with all those other countries who already have them.
See contrary to Salon's rabid antisemitic ignorance.... -- Electro Robot
Has anyone else noticed that this Defender of All Jewry is a facile bigot? He spouts the same vile rot about others that he purports to see and despise in us. And when called on it -- he proclaims that he's just a pragmatist who speaks truth to the dim. This is the reverse of true however; his habitually shit-stirring prose defends no one's interests.
"The Iranians" consist of 2 major ethnic power groups -- Persians and Azeris -- and a few consequential smaller ethnic groups including Shi'ite Arabs in the southwest and Baluchis in the far east. That's just the few that I know about from casual reading over the years. quickstrategy could undoubtedly tell you more in a heartbeat.
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@Baldie
Knob will simply believe ANYTHING they tell him.
It is just getting sad at this point.
Next step is telling us how great the economy has done under Bush and we should be grateful for lower taxes, then how much a national ID card will protect our freedoms, then how lucky we are that they care enough to spy on our internet.
I mean, seriously? Missile Defense? The most famous defense research fiasco in recent memory?
Ow.
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Or, put another way:
"War is a racket. It always has been. [...] A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."
-Smedley D. Butler
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NotOrbitBoy
Here we go, let's turn the thread into a Ronald Reagan Neocon circle-jerk. Nothing important to talk about here...
Ron single-handedly beat the communists, developed anti-missile technology, broke up the unionist-traitors who dared hold American labor hostage... what other crap can you dream up to attribute to him?
His patriotic acting in WWII propaganda films really spurred the nation into action...
"Bedtime for Bonzo" warmed the hearts of a nation...
Even Greenspan said the Soviets would've collapsed in 1990. Their military spending was more or less flat from the period before Reagan took office until after he left it. The idea that Reagan dreamed up a scheme to "beat" them is a fallacy. IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE.
Star Wars was largely a distraction; no missile shield is successfully in place today - NOR IS ONE CLOSE, although I suspect it served it's purpose of making whatever Pentagon-private sector-revolving-door-insiders a lot of $$$.
You are a deeply unserious joke.
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Bald Man
According to this link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23265613/
"The USS Lake Erie, armed with an SM-3 missile designed to knock down incoming missiles — not orbiting satellites — launched the attack at 10:26 p.m. ET (0326 GMT Thursday), according to the Pentagon. It hit the satellite as the spacecraft traveled at more than 17,000 mph (27,000 kilometers per hour)."
Combine that with the previous link to a laser based weapon, and the conclusion I draw, anti-missile technology is advancing, is not due to gullibility. Nor is the source of the data leading to those conclusions the work of a neo-con.
Time to get new pair of prescription sun glasses to help you see things more clearly.
Thank Ronald Reagan when you do.
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OT but noteworthy
When I think of people doing follow up on an issue that Glenn has pressed, Politico is not what comes to mind BUT:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10204.html
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Figurative bleach
Lessons I've learned about bleach....
if you don't actually touch the dirty things, then you won't need any bleach. After all, unitards don't float through the air in the manner of, say, anthrax spores. ;-}
History, as it's taught in high schools, is subject to the textbooks that are allowed. I don't think I need to remind too many people about what a fight it can be to maintain accurate textbooks.
Anyone for a side of "intelligent design" with that history main course?
-- Pedinska
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I remember the text books in elementary school. We made covers for them (couldn't write on or in them, or otherwise damage 'em) using the same brown paper you find in grocery bags. I hated science class; I could've given a damn about mitosis. The problem wasn't the district's hand-me-down text, though. I was thirteen and just plain lazy.
I disagree with you on that one point. I think the books are important; an engaged, enthusiastic teacher is even more so. The best texts in the world don't make up for an indifferent, apathetic instructor.
Last: In neo-con world, where all glasses are rose colored (and probably mirrored), Ledeen gets invited to speak at reputable venues, where he spews his truth-filled, unbiased, evenhanded theses. Well heeled folk then applaud genteelly. Some even reach for their checkbooks. The dirty, hate-filled liberals besmirch Ledeen's good name.
Yeah. That's the ticket.
Nauseating.