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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Harold Brown and the arms race
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Date: Sun, 16-Dec-84 16:35:01 EST
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> > Inferior?  Maybe to the other planets in the Federation, Scotty.
> > 
> 
> Well, I wouldn't trade our arsenal for theirs either, because
> the U.S. forces aren't geared for a first strike, because that's
> not our policy.  Now, if it were, then thats a different story
> altogether, especially if the Russians didn't have a first
> strike strategy.  In short, whether I trade or not depends on what I
> want to do.  The Russian rocket forces are very capable for
> doing the stuff they plan to do, and ours used to be fairly capable
> at doing what we wanted to do...
> 
> 					Milo

What do we want to do?  Crack the earth in half?  Our forces are quite
capable of supporting our Assured Destruction doctrine (often labeled,
somewhat misleadingly, MAD).  You should go back in time and campaign
for JFK and tout your `missle gap' nonsense when it was more in vogue,
if equally as untrue as today.

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